September 2019 
Suggested Teaching Guide for “Has the Happy Ending Fallen Out of Style” by Lee Lee Goodson
Kali White VanBaale
Because the article focuses exclusively on “happy endings” in fiction—in stories where the author has complete control over the ending—this article and teaching guide are most appropriate for fiction-focused courses and workshops.
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Drunk on Words: Matwaala Festival of South Asian Poets of the Diaspora, 2019
Zilka Joseph
Matwaala is one who is intoxicated, drunk on words and life, and that was the inspiration for the founders...
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Graceful Exits: The Endings of Five Grief Memoirs
Carrie Shipers
There’s no single formula or method for concluding a grief memoir any more than there is one for surviving grief itself, as much as we may wish otherwise.
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On the Tip of the Tongue: Cognitive Poetics & Expressive Sound Patterns
E.P. Fisher
...a characteristic of poetic language is its regression to the emotive, nonreferential use of sound strings and a less differentiated phonological system.
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A Conversation with Sinéad Morrissey
Chapman Hood Frazier
require you to engage with other people about poetry and to be an advocate for your form, which I have no problem in doing. But being public necessarily precludes the privacy, space and lack of external pressures which are prerequisites for writing poetry...
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A Woman Alone in a Room Realizing Something
Alice Mattison
Now I urge students to write what’s emotionally difficult and what they fear will be melodramatic. If it does seem overdone, they can rewrite it, using fewer adverbs and adjectives and taking out figures of speech and clichés. Understatement is the solution, not leaving out the drama.
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Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani: A Conversation About Mentorship
Heather Sappenfield
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani are men with histories of emigration and endurance layered in the accents and cadences of their speech... The scope of these men’s writing is equally varied and remarkable.
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An Eye for the Long Run: A Tribute to Donald Hall 1928–2018
Martin Lammon
Those early letters were my "MFA" program, at least two reams of typed give-and-take.
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