March/April 2016 
An Interview with Kevin Brockmeier
Lydia Cole
Typically I know what I’m hoping to accomplish, but only in the broadest sense. What I almost always have in mind is an operating metaphor...
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An Interview with Tim Seibles
Nin Andrews
There are many intensely thoughtful, inventive, and engaging poets writing in our country these days; it's essentially impossible to say who's the best...
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The Fourth Wave in Native American Fiction
Erika T. Wurth
The Fourth Wave of fiction writers have inherited much, an entire literary history that is not only struggle but art. And art is sometimes everything.
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The Magnetic Character
Porter Shreve
As a reflection of the world, a cast of characters should be dynamic.
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Creative Non-What? On the Poetry of Prose
Susannah B. Mintz
A lyric essay may be more concerned with rhythm and white space than linearity or arc; a lyric essay meditates and ruminates.
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Writing Good Bad Guys
Susan Vinocour
I've spent many happy hours sitting in cells with murderers and other nefarious characters...
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The Critic as Artist: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic
Joey Franklin
According to Wilde, the only question a civilized person should ever ask another is "what are you thinking?"
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