February 2022
Complicity & the Rise of the Post-Human Poem
Jon D. Lee
“The ramifications of these capabilities are both theoretically and concretely profound, beginning with whether or not computer generated poems actually constitute works of poetry.”
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Conflicting Truths: Navigating Unreliability in Stories of Ethical and Emotional Complexity
Hannah Markos Williams
“The beauty of this type of narrative is that it invites the reader to believe that even when two stories are in confl ict, both can be true.”
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Against the Typography of Colonization: Decolonization Through & of the Printed Text by Contemporary Indigenous Poets
Beatrice Szymkowiak
“One of the first actions of Western colonizers was to rename everything: land, landscape, people, fauna,
and fl ora, and to impose their language over Native languages. The printed text… was a tool of colonization, and remains an agent of settler colonialism.”
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An Interview with Spencer Reece
Collin Berry
“Along the way, I became a priest. It was an unusual choice for sure. And I often get asked why. So, this book always seeks to lean into that question and explore it through the poetry of my heroes.”
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SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Just Enough Light to See By: Conveying Meaning in Nonfiction Writing” by Clifford Thompson
Tanya Perkins
"Students often find it easy (well, easier than, say, factoring binomials) to recount events from their own experience and memory but less easy to shape their recollections on the page in a way that conveys what the events meant to them personally."
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Eight Ways to Create Knowledge with Creative Writing
Robert McGill
“In a society where the mere association of a person with an idea can be devastating
for that person’s reputation, creative writing gives writers and readers a forum for discussing radical notions.”
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Where Do You Get a Poetic License to Infringe Copyright?
Cathy Wittmeyer
“While it wouldn’t seem worth the effort to sue a poet, I will add a fourth question for the simple poet contemplating great things for their poetry: what are their intentions for one day publishing this work?”
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An Interview with Ellen Bass
Patricia Clark
“This is the state you want to be in when you’re writing—the state of not-knowing. If you
already know what you’re going to say, then there’s not much reason to write the
poem. We write to discover something.”
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