February 2018 
An Interview with Kenneth Irby
Denise Low
And sometimes the poet comes across paper that's bigger format than others. Otherwise, you simply do what Whitman did. Break the line. Indent it until you get the whole long one, like a verse paragraph.
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Imitation vs. Originality
Nicholas Delbanco
Plagiarism is a mighty charge, not easy to dismiss; the issue is a vexed one, and it won't go away. Abandon all hope, ye who copy here.
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An Interview with Julia Keller
Jera Brown
Nobody likes books that are lecturing at them because it gets kind of boring and dreary, and you want a story.
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Heathcliff at the Village Green
Margot Livesey
Wuthering Heights is sometimes understood in polarized terms, as if Brontë were simply allowing her characters to negotiate, and finally choose, between the orderly pleasures of the Grange and the amoral passions of the Heights...
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The Art of Description
David Jauss
The subtlety, unity, symbolism, and narrative effectiveness of Hemingway's landscapes greatly increased as he absorbed the lessons of Cézanne and moved beyond the photographic realism that characterized his depiction of Hortons Bay...
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Poetic Image
James Longenbach
...even a Van Gogh painting is not made of images. It is made of minerals ground and suspended in linseed oil, then smeared on canvas and allowed to cure. A poem is made of words.
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Breaking Boundaries Through Linguistic Aesthetics in The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy the "Meteque"
Sreedhevi Iyer
Malayalam and Tamil, both Dravidian tongues, are considered agglutinative languages in linguistics, as per Wilhelm von Humboldt, in that words are formed by joining morphemes together...
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