February 2012
11 posts
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nateslawson:
For the month of February, I’m giving away one book each week. What do I ask for in return? Love. How do you get a free book? Post/share a video of yourself reading a Nate Slawson poem. Winners will be chosen by me and some guest “judges” of questionable repute. Tell your friends!
Alumni Nate Slawson is giving away a copy of his book, PANIC ATTACK, USA each week of February. That...
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An interview with the unsinkable Julie Schumacher
In the midst of writing new fiction, directing the Creative Writing Program, teaching and advising MFA candidates, Julie Schumacher somehow found time to answer a few of Jennifer Fossenbell’s questions about her new book, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, due out this May from Delacorte Books for Young Readers.
Here’s a sneak preview of the opening lines: I’m...
January 2012
7 posts
Wipe Your Feet Before You Enter These Links
-I’m a little worried this is not as comprehensive as it could be, and I’m thinking we’re going to do an AWP advent calendar up in here that will let you know about specific readings/cool stuff, but start checking out the off-site reading list.
-“[Mythological creatures] do suffer, because they have been made our animals.” An interview with MFA can. Feng Sun Chen is...
Extended Poemix Scenes by Jared Joseph Harvey
When very big stars die, they explode. This is called a poem. When a poem happens it becomes unstable. This makes parts of the poem collapse. Stars form in these collapsed areas. Shard parade is an example of a place where stars form poems.
Many galaxies in the universe are gravitationally bound to other galaxies, that is to say they will never escape the pull of the other galaxy. If the...
Poemix for Julian T. Brolaski's "gowanus...
A POEM SET TO A PLAYLIST OF SONGS BY DEAD STAR JARED JOSEPH HARVEY
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gowanus apocalypse bees at toledo gog and magog satellite – farce[i] spycams ablog as they drip w/ pearls and molt landlord peraventure[ii] infinite di – a’ready – harry harry ope myopia ersatz reigeur gays...
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December 2011
19 posts
Music and writing are part of the same girl’s braid. I’m pretty sure. Anyway, I decided to ask some writers to make a playlist, either for a piece of writing or something that reflects their ideas about writing. Anything I could pin to the rocky face of this blog.
Up first is blue-aired poet Mike Young . Mostly because his blog is named after a line from Frank Stanford’s...
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Wipe Your Feet Before Entering These Links
-Selections from Fabulosae Aves: “Any depression in the soil can be used as a nest, though it has been known to enter homes and pastry shops to nest in soft dough and soup bowls.”
-I want this so bad. I want it. I want all the stamps from the MLP Stamp Stories Anthology. $12! I got a few last year by accident and they are magnificent. Also, Issue 17.
-“My story/poem/essay...
November 2011
21 posts
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WatchIsaac Butler is a spectacular being. He makes his own ice cream and his hair is made out of several cloud species. Isaac is a 2nd year MFA in non-fiction, but has an extensive background in theatre and directing. His awesome blog (not on tumblr, but it’s cool) has been featured in important places, like the New York Times and the Guardian online. For the past couple weeks, he’s been...
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Outfoxed: An interview with alumni Lauren Fox
Lauren Fox, who graduated from the MFA program at the University of Minnesota in 1998, was kind enough to talk to me about her new book, Friends Like Us (Knopf, 2012). We talked about Donkey Kong, how humor and pain get entangled, and the MFA program’s influence on penmanship. Lauren Fox is also the author of Still Life with Husband (Knopf, 2007), and her writing has appeared in Seventeen,...
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-HTMLgiant aggregated a bunch of writers’ internet thoughts on/reactions to Occupy Wallstreet.
-For some reason, Robert Hass at the NYT talking about Occupy Berkeley is missing from that list.
-Charles Baxter on Murakami at the NY Review of Books.
-Writers and Kitties
-Now I know Art Thoughtz. Now you know Art Thoughtz.
-I’m not totally sure how I feel about this. A Letter to...
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J. Bradley talking to PANK about writing an epic... →
5. There were many pop culture references throughout the poem. Did you include those to make the narrative more accessible or are they more an organic part of the poem?
The pop culture references felt incredibly organic as I was writing Esmeralda. If it made the narrative more accessible to the reader, then that’s a bonus. Eliot worked in Dante’s Purgatory with Prufrock. I worked in Joy...
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