December 2018 
The Contemporary American Novella & Its (Dis)contents
John Keene
...the novella’s comparatively concentrated scope and focus are such that it does not attempt to encompass as much of the world as most novels do.
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An Interview with Rikki Ducornet
David Naimon
Writing is a mysterious process. Things have a way of percolating before they pounce, sometimes for a long time.
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The Poet as Wounded Citizen
Tony Hoagland
Poets must continue to live close to the wound, and poems to speak from the edge of what the culture at large is unwilling to know.
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An Interview with Charles Harper Webb
Laurel Ann Bogen
My students assume that difficult poets are bad writers. What really flips these students out is when I reveal that the poet isn’t trying to be clear, or to “make sense” in the usual way.
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Strange Meetings: The Problems of Poetry, Representation, & War
Paisley Rekdal
Owen perhaps trusted poems to render a more expansive reflection of the world than any camera lens could, which, as the critic Roland Barthes wrote, is finally and practically attached to the real.
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Applying the Techniques of Modern Magical Realism
Boak Ferris
Magic, in a narrative, entertains; buy it or refuse it. The characters experience it, but the persona may or may not believe, while the marveling audience must deliberate and decide.
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Virginia Woolf’s Capture of Consciousness
Martha Cooley
Significantly, Woolf’s innovations with craft and form weren’t detached from her inquiries into gender, particularly its relation to military and economic power.
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