May/Summer 2017 
Disturbing the Peace: Celebrating 50 Years of AWP
Azar Nafisi
Great poets in Iran have always been against the Orthodoxy, be it the clerics or the absolutist monarchs.
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An Interview with Salman Rushdie
Lisa Page
...most literature is about conflict, struggle, power, etc., so it may not be directly about political issues that are alive at the time the writer is writing but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have an application to public themes.
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You Are Making Me Now: Writing God as a Contemporary American Poet
Joy Ladin
Why is it so hard for American poets to write about God?
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The Fourth Voice of Poetry
Brian Brodeur
In dramatic possession—the outward expression of the fourth voice—the poet speaks through a dramatic character in order to expand her own concerns, to move beyond the limitations of her experience and consciousness by inhabiting those of an other.
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Go Thick, Go Deep: Craft Lessons from an Ethnographer
Kay Henry
Ethnographers and their scientific companions, archeologists, seek significance in the everyday behaviors and detritus of human life.
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The True Story? How to Deal with Evidential Gaps While Writing a Biography
Viola van de Sandt
A human being—fractured, contradictory, ambiguous—can never be adequately represented in a closed, linear narrative that imposes its own order and significance on multiple events and stories.
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The Fabuleme: On Belief and the Reactivation of Disbelief in Fiction
Brenda Peynado
The sense of wonder is often the driving force behind modern fabulism, a slippery genre, hard to define because it borrows from so many other traditional genres and slides into others.
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