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William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the writer. “beauty is a defiance of authority”…

Happy birthday, Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading this fiction we published on January 8, 2020. And by listening to our…

Backfire in the ’90s Backfire in the ’90s: a minute of mag- nolia, bobbing, nearly gave away its militant…

Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer. “All literature is protest.” “The artist…

Happy birthday, Grace Campbell! Read this Campbell nonfiction we published last year! Windows lap up the rust belt, entire…

I am trying to keep myself busy while the world is on hold. And so I do what I…

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading these Lopez fictions we published this year; and then go read “The Future…

The Writer In the beginning, they belong to us. They are our words on our pages—scribbled, straightened, colorized, uninterrogated,…

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! Here are some quotes from the writer. “‘What good is a writer if he…

By Alissa Hattman I write this review at the end of July from my home near Portland, Oregon, where…