From his essay “Remembering Richard Remembering Mlle. Marty” (volume 3, number 1; summer 2006) In the summer of 2004 I spent a couple of weeks, as I regularly do, with Byron at the house in Solliès-Toucas where Richard lived for the last thirty-five years of his life, and we availed ourselves, as we regularly do …
As promised, and hopefully in time to save the remaining hairs on your head, here is the key to Michael’s first crossword. Stay tuned for the next puzzle!
We’re in the thick of mailing mayhem and don’t have time for a blog-post proper, but for fun we’ll toss out these shots of what’s on or next to our staff’s desks. This will be more fun for folks in the department, but if you match the image with the right staffer (Sara, Matt, Nicola, …
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith has been pitting himself against “puzzles,” as he calls them, for years. One might say he started with a puzzle passion, spending entire weekends with pen perched over a creased newspaper page. His preoccupation only grew until, when asked a question, he found himself responding with a crossword clue (“Six letters, …
Write what you know. It’s easy to tire of the adage, to bristle as the tweedy, bespectacled creative-writing-instructor-within brandishes his red pen at the slightest intimation of the unknown: dark matter, psychic surgery, monkey robot vampires from Planet Zed. When we asked 11.1 contributors Eric Pankey, Lesley Parry, and Michael Marberry to discuss their process, …
Our new issue is wheeling its way toward us, and our storage room is packed tighter than a clown car. Gotta make room, readers, so if you’ve been pining for a particular back issue or three or four, now’s your chance to load up on some of the best stories, poems, essays, and reviews of …
Long forms, we have come to appreciate anew your grand-scale grace, your unhurried pace, the way you are willing, like a guest at an Indian wedding, to dance in the street for days. Our overstuffed winter issue will hit the mail trucks next week, and we just filled our spring/summer number, which promises to be …
As those of you following along know by now, last Friday here at UC Mary Szybist read from her National Book Award–winning collection Incarnadine. What you might not know is that during said reading Szybist shared an ekphrastic poem (a poem responding to a piece of visual art), an abecedarian (a poem in which each …
Mary Szybist is UC’s 2015 George Elliston Poet-in-Residence. Last Tuesday, January 13, Szybist held a Master Class titled “The Concessional Structure” on the multifarious ways in which poems turn. The following day she led a session for students enrolled in the graduate poetry workshop, offering praise, helpful suggestions, and thoughtful critiques of student work. On …
Creative inspiration is often rooted in a writer’s ability to be attentive to the moment. Frank Baum is a prime example: he’d tell improvised fairy-tales to his children, and after they’d fallen asleep, he’d jot down his stories in a notebook. Eventually, these revised fairy-tales became The Wizard of Oz. He expanded upon his world …
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