February 2021
An Interview with Nancy Naomi Carlson
Christina Daub
"In translation, the ending has already been supplied. I don’t have to decide the structure of the poem, how long the lines will be, or even how long the poem will be. Someone else has already done this work.."
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SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Brief But True” by Jennifer Sinor
Jeannine Ouellette
"Jennifer Sinor argues that “the flash form in nonfiction works a lot like an O’Keeffe painting. It alters our understanding of space and time, asks us to see and experience the world differently.” There is perhaps no more singularly urgent imperative for us at this time, not just as writers, but, indeed, as humans, than this one: to look longer and harder, and to see, really see, what lies before us."
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An Interview with Heather Lanier
Jason Gray
"I realized in retrospect that, during those first few months of lockdown, I was in a scramble for meaning making. I’m no longer scrambling so hard. I’ve settled into the disorientation. But I still have an urge, and I long to see other artists try to make sense of things, too."
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Artistic Interpretations, Assumptions, and Expectation in Creative Nonfiction
Amy Mackin
"Proven scientific axioms may not be subjective, but the personal truths surrounding them certainly are. Every human being begins and evolves with a different set of variables and values"
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Success and the Late Blooming Author
Ellen Meeropol, Celeste Gainey, Sandra Gail Lambert, and Cynthia Robinson Young
"The purpose of this conversation is to open up to a wider audience what was initiated in those AWP presentations and further explore how women who first publish after fifty, particularly women of color, LGBTQ, or with disabilities, favorably negotiate such a landscape. Do we define success differently than younger writers?"
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An Interview with Tim O'Brien
Joe O’Connell
"I was fifty-eight. I waited out of fear. I was afraid of a bunch of stuff. One, I was afraid I couldn’t keep the kid alive. It seemed so foreign to me at that age. A resentment that I might lose freedom. I’d be shackled to a child forever. I kind of resented that in theory. I went so long without children that I was used to it. That was my life. I was also a writer."
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“Love You I Must”: Dudley Randall and the Ballad Tradition
Teow Lim Goh
"Chaucer was one of the first poets to write ballades in English. While most of his ballades preserved the spirit of the form, he did not strictly follow the rules that French poets had established."
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That’s Interesting
Debra Spark
"Ira Glass says the moment he knows he has a story is the moment it surprises."
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