Writing the Story of Mental Illness for Young Readers

Ann Jacobus and Nancy Bo Flood

Poetry Grabbed Me by the Collar: An Interview with Eli Clare

Kathi Wolfe

On Inaugural Poet—Amanda Gorman

E. Ethelbert Miller

Ruth Bader Ginsberg: An Appreciation

Kathi Wolfe

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Identity

Eileen Cronin

Imagining Your Way through Pandemic: A Love Letter for Students of Creative Writing in Times of Crisis

Emily Carr

Writing in a Time of Disaster

Debra Spark

What The Plague Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Michael C. White

"Embracing my tribe of writers": A Conversation with Sue William Silverman

Supriya Bhatnagar

A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin

David Naimon

Middle Passage at 25: Charles Johnson Reflects on His National Book Award–Winning Novel and More

Robin Lindley

Towards a New Creative Writing Pedagogy

Fred D'Aguiar

Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing

David Mura

In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing

Claudia Rankine

An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon

William Naparsteck

The Quarrel with Ourselves: Robert Penn Warren’s “World of Action and Liability”

Natasha Trethewey

The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady

Douglas Bauer

Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create

Lisa C. Krueger

Endlessly Branching: An Interview with Arthur Sze

Andy Fogle

Shine in that Vivid Isolation: A Case Study of the Ghazal in the Contemporary American Lyric

Tyler Mills

Balancing Craft & Commitment: Writing Political Fiction

Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol

The Postmodern Memoir

Hugh Ryan

The Absence of Their Presence: Mythic Character in Fiction

Steven Schwartz

A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni

Chapman Hood Frazier

Novel Anxiety: Notes from the Genre War Trenches

Martha Cooley

Between Starshine & Clay:An Interview with Lucille Clifton

Remica L. Bingham

Make it New/Make it Funky: An Interview with Cornelius Eady

Jona Colson

Turning the Screws of Story Construction with Henry James

Aimee Liu

Odds on Ends

Molly Giles

Poetry & Ethics: Writing About Others

Natasha Sajé

Like Water Remembering Light: An Interview with Marilyn Nelson

Leslie McGrath

How We Are Changed by the Rhythms of Poetry

Karin de Weille

Sin's Entertainment: On Dante's Inferno

Martha Cooley

Silence & Storytelling

Alice Mattison

Elegy for Desire: Luis Omar Salinas 1937-2008

Christopher Buckley

Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function

Tony Barnstone

The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs

Brian Baldi

The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction

Sue William Silverman

On Difficulty in Poetry

Reginald Shepherd

My Touchstones

Alan Cheuse

Aural Invention as Floral Splendor: Louis Zukofsky's Vision of Natural Beauty in 80 Flowers

Leon Lewis

Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular

David Harbilas

Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry

Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson

An Interview with Rita Dove

Elizabeth Alexander

Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir

Mark Doty

An Interview with Chang-rae Lee

Sarah Anne Johnson

An Interview with Edward P. Jones

Sherry Ellis

Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction

Kaylene Johnson

"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic

Rebecca Warner

An Interview with Ai

Tomas Q. Morin

Writing and Moaning

Alan Cheuse

An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin

Ramola D

The Treasure Trove of Metaphor: More on Poetry Anthologies

Rachel Hadas

An Interview with Nick Hornby

Tom DeMarchi

A Conversation with Dorothy Allison

Renée Olander

Remembering Eudora Welty

Richard Bausch

Poetry and Survival

Gregory Orr

An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips

Sarah Anne Johnson

An Interview with Li-Young Lee

Marie Jordan

The Muse in the News

Andrew Ciofalo

"Tis Backed Like a Weasel": The Slipperiness of Metaphor

Tony Hoagland

Self-Censorship & the Alternatives

André Schiffrin

Bend Sinister: A Handbook for Writers

Alice McDermott

An Interview with Louise Glück

Jonathan Farmer

From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing

David Jauss

An Interview with Reginald McKnight

Renée Olander

The Self as a Literary Construct

Jocelyn Bartkevicius

An Interview with Mark Doty

Dale Boyer

Italicized Writings

Diana Garcia

Reviewing Literary Citizenship

Valerie Miner

On the Founding of WC&F: Community for Writers

Kelleen Zubick

Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry

Judith Lynn Harris

Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man

Sven Birkerts

An Interview with Mary Oliver

Renee Olander

An Interview with Rosellen Brown

Alexander Neubauer

The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop

Julie Brown

Standing & Listening: Marianne Moore's Strategies

Nancy Sherman

Censorship, Obscenity, & Secrecy: Slapping the Face of the Body Politic

T.R. Hummer

Poetry as Democracy: A Letter to AWP

Garrett Hongo

Teaching & Transference: A Response to Ann Turkle

Eric Torgersen

The Old Testament and Feminist Imagination

Alicia Ostriker

Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England

John Clellon Holmes

The Writer as Midwife

Daniel Halpern

Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction

Charles Johnson

Tendril: A Brief History

Mari Lonano

Committee Reports to the Members: II. Guidelines for Teachers of Writing

AWP Committee