December 2016 
A Conversation with Medbh McGuckian
Chapman Hood Frazier
...every time I saw Seamus or heard him, I generally responded to him with a poem. He was very, very inspiring for me.
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An Interview with Stewart O’Nan
Jeffrey Condran
It's good to go a little crazy every once in a while. Keeps the reader off balance.
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Consider Before You Comma: A Poet's Call to Action
Natasha Sajé
The acts of reading and writing always mean immersing ourselves in norms that vary with the individual, era, genre, and culture, yet when we’re immersed in a set of norms such as punctuation rules, we don’t notice them—they are the air we breathe.
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Something Wants Her Crooked—Ruralism, Surrealism, and Mortality in the Poems of Alberta Turner
A. Loudermilk
The details of Turner's life rise to the surface edges first in her poems, or pop into place like they were there all along, vivid, authentic, and quietly thumping.
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“What Do You Mean You Can’t Do It?”: The Myth of “Show, Don’t Tell”
Bill Mesce, Jr.
By the time I started getting hit with “Show, don’t tell” as a screenwriter, I had already had enough experience under my belt to know that, as an overriding cinematic aesthetic, it was more or less bullshit.
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Big Mama: Universality and Wholeness in the Essay
Liz Blood
The realm of essays is no different. It is a place in which to find deep connection, a place full of variety and surprise that alternates—like us and our world—between the calm and the wild.
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Move Mountains: Activating Setting
Benjamin Percy
Place matters. That’s what so many people seem to have forgotten.
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