September 2010 
Kimonos & Cashmere: Tasteful Inquiry in Memoir
Lauren Smith
In a place where people seek to uncover answers, a son envisions his mother wearing a garment designed to cover her.
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Where the Arc Leads: What American Women's Literary History Reveals About the Contemporary MFA Writer
Elizabeth Eshelman
These three conditions-permission to write, community, and audience-are at the core of what it has meant for women to advance in American literature, and interestingly, it is these same three specific needs that MFA programs meet for the contemporary individual writer who wishes to advance.
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The Cat's Out of the Bag: Recommendations to Poets for Expanding Access to Poetry in a New Media World
Katharine Coles, Lewis Hyde, Peter Jaszi, & Jennifer Urban
The fair use doctrine singles out works of art that alter and build on previous works as protected uses, and we celebrate these practices, even if they occur in new media, and even if some artists engage in them in ways we might consider sloppy, disrespectful, or downright obnoxious.
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Matrix for Meaning: Physical Setting in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Alexander Parsons
We often talk about cliched characters, cliched descriptions, cliched notions, et cetera. And we've all had that moment, as readers and writers, when we note cliche efflorescing in the prose like the unsightly recurrence of shingles.
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Out of a Snowy Tree: Form and Revelation in the Poetry of Chase Twichell
Mark Jarman
Every form her poetry has taken has been shaped by that soul as it grows in understanding, always sharpened and focused by the radiant genius of the poet's senses.
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Letting In "The Other:" An Interview With Andre Dubus III
Laura McCullough
But honestly it's no different than writing about any other kind of violence. It's no different than writing about anything else.
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An Interview with Claudia Emerson
Mara Scanlon
I'm circling back to the issue of the woman writer I started with, and then you started talking about the South and race-it's interesting to follow that thought pattern and think about the ways those things are connected for you. So I just want to draw back to it and see if there's anything else you want to say about that.
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