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Years ago, I posted a link to Bernadette Mayer’s poem Very Strong February. I was first introduced to Mayer’s work at Goddard. My advisor suggested that I include Midwinter Day in my book list. At the time, I was struggling Continue reading Submitting experimental writing
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right Continue reading The Right Form of the Story
“Young readers often think of description as the parts that they can skip. Naive as that may be, that impulse recognizes something crucial– the parts where the colors of the arroyo or the burnished glow of the furniture are described Continue reading Stalking a woman in the tea aisle