The Philosopher’s Daughter: a talk with Lori Desrosiers about her new book
Lori Desrosiers new book of poems, The Philosopher’s Daughter, is available from Salmon Poetry. Her chapbook, Three Vanities, was published in 2009 by Pudding House. Her poems have appeared in New...
View ArticleTupelo Quarterly
I am so delighted to tell you that Tupelo Press is starting a quarterly journal, and I am honored to be at the helm. We have an amazing group of writer-editors already working behind the scenes to...
View ArticleA profile for TQ, by Eric Darton
A Profile of Jessamyn Johnston Smyth, Tupelo Quarterly’s founding Editor-in-Chief Jessamyn Johnston Smyth is a key figure in literature today — one whose name recognition will soon catch up with her...
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Akrotiri frescoes All Medusa all the time Classics Technology Center Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Egyptian myths Encyclopedia Mythica Flash myths Folklore and mythology e-texts Fox lore Fox woman myths...
View ArticleSkinless
In response to a prompt given the gorgeous writer Elizabeth Eslami, whose “Maps” you should go read immediately, a sort of meme is emerging via writerly social networks. “Here is the question: If you...
View ArticleOn critical feedback by writers for writers
These are two handouts I often use when I teach writing. A bunch of people have asked for them over the years, so I’m putting them here for convenience: feel free to use them as you like, just give...
View ArticleSome favorite writing quotes:
A compressed commonplace collection, below the fold: “Via writing, we discover that here, in the sacred and provisional space of the story, the play, or the poem, there exist no strangers, only fellow...
View ArticleUninscrutable
I find myself thinking about the habitual language of discomfort we use about unabashedly smart women [writers or not] – I find myself thinking about how often I hear it, the discomfort, and I keep...
View ArticleNext Big Thing Interview with Margo Lemieux: Believe in Water
Happy to post this guest-blog/Next Big Thing Interview for fellow Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Series winner Margo Lemieux. You can pre-order her book here! Margo is a painter and poet. She...
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