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Poetry Shots: How to Survive a Hotel Fire
Megan Laurel created illustrations for the title poem from Angela Veronica Wong's 2012 digital chapbook, How to Survive a Hotel Fire. Wong's full-length collection of the same name was published later...
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Poetry Shots: American Poem
In The Blue Teratorn, released as part of the Poetry Shots series in 2012, Dorothea Lasky’s poems are illustrated by Kaori Mitsushima. In a post on her blog, Lasky describes this digital chapbook as "a...
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Frequencies, Volume One
Released in January 2013, Frequencies, Volume One is a chapbook and music anthology that features poetry by Bob Hicok and Phillip B. Williams and short fiction by Molly Gaudry, with accompanying music...
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January/February 2014
Issue Volume/NumberVolume: 42 Issue: January/February Year: 2014 Cover StorySummary: Our Inspiration Issue features a special section celebrating the creative power and limitless capacity of every...
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Q&A: Ríos Named Arizona Poet Laureate
January/February 2014 Norah Booth State: Arizona This month poet Alberto Ríos, author most recently of the collection The Dangerous Shirt (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), will be sworn in as the first...
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Motionpoems Gets Moving
January/February 2014 Christie Taylor A Minneapolis-based collaborative brings poetry to life through a series of animated films.Article Thumbnail: motionpoems_thumb.jpgPage 1This is all the info...
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The Bones of Us: Yale Street
Mazer's illustrations provided inspiration for many of the revisions that J. Bradley made to his poems. In "Yale Street," Bradley writes, "When we traded electric currents through the tips of our...
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The Bones of Us: Cosmonaut
In "Cosmonaut," Bradley describes a house as "a pulmonary system of pocket universes" where "we lose ourselves in the vacuum of Auto-Tune, drift toward the outer rims of conversations and plastic Dixie...
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The Bones of Us: A Letter to a Wedding Photo That's Not Mine
For the graphic poetry collection The Bones of Us, artist Adam Scott Mazer illustrated J. Bradley's poems first in pencil, then overlaid in ink applied with a brush. In the poem "A Letter to a Wedding...
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Poetry Shots: How We Molested the Sky
Art for Dana Guthrie Martin’s collection, Toward What Is Awful, was created by Ghangbin Kim, a student of Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Martin, who has published two other...
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Poetry Shots: How to Survive a Hotel Fire
Megan Laurel created illustrations for the title poem from Angela Veronica Wong's 2012 digital chapbook, How to Survive a Hotel Fire. Wong's full-length collection of the same name was published later...
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Poetry Shots: American Poem
In The Blue Teratorn, released as part of the Poetry Shots series in 2012, Dorothea Lasky’s poems are illustrated by Kaori Mitsushima. In a post on her blog, Lasky describes this digital chapbook as "a...
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Frequencies, Volume One
Released in January 2013, Frequencies, Volume One is a chapbook and music anthology that features poetry by Bob Hicok and Phillip B. Williams and short fiction by Molly Gaudry, with accompanying music...
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January/February 2014
Issue Volume/NumberVolume: 42 Issue: January/February Year: 2014 Cover StorySummary: Our Inspiration Issue features a special section celebrating the creative power and limitless capacity of every...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
The promise of a new year is laden with expectations. Much of the conflict and drama that propels stories forward stems from a character’s passions and expectations. Some of those expectations are...
View ArticlePerspective
Writers often loathe the idea of a New Year's resolution because we constantly make deals and compromises with our creative souls regarding productivity and diligence. Bargaining with our writing vices...
View ArticleLouise Erdrich
“I just keep going.” In this clip, taken from a 2010 interview with Bill Moyers, author Louise Erdrich discusses motherhood, managing expectations, and how she always finds time to...
View ArticleNew Year’s Reading List, Jorge Luis Borges, Shia LaBeouf’s Apology, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The Daily Beast offers a life-affirming reading list; Kitchen Sink Press has donated its archives to Columbia University; test your literary knowledge with a quiz gleaned from...
View ArticleNewly Revived December Magazine Launches Literary Awards
First founded in Iowa City in 1958, December, the storied literary magazine resurrected last month after being shuttered for nearly three decades, is currently considering submissions for its first...
View ArticleBest Books on Writing, Readers Flock to the Frick Museum, Edwidge Danticat,...
James F. Thompson Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch has caused a spike in ticket sales at the Frick Museum; Paul Theroux reads “The Letter Writers” by British author Elizabeth Taylor; Dorothea Lasky...
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