microreview/interview: Wayne Miller’s Post-
by José Angel Araguz In his latest collection, Post- (Milkweed Editions), contributor Wayne Miller...
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Acre Books at Books by the Banks!
Join us for the launch of Acre Books—UC’s new small literary press—at the annual Books by the Banks festival, which takes place at Duke Energy Convention Center this Saturday. Doors open at 10 a.m., and panels...
Read MoreSchiff Awards: The Judges and Writers on the Winning Poem and Story
On Our Poetry Winner, “Very Many Hands” by Aaron Coleman Poetry Editor Don Bogen: “Very Many Hands” stood out among this year’s strong field of contest entries for, among other things, its overall ambition: It’s the...
Read MoreThe Art of Addition: Allen Forrest, John A. Nieves, Alison Pelegrin
Our conscious minds notice only the tiniest fraction of all the stimuli in our environment: car horns, baking bread, ants on the sidewalk, a gust of wind, a buzzing phone. Sometimes, it seems easier to put in our headphones,...
Read MoreContest Winners!
Winners of the Seventh Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose Aaron Coleman for his poem “Very Many Hands” Maureen McGranaghan for her story “Stylites Anonymous” First off, a big...
Read MoreGaming Poetics: Hexagon, Hexagon Again
James Ellenberger: The Settlers of Catan is a resource-management game that requires each player to stake out territory on a lovely, numbered hexagonal landscape. As the game progresses, the players rely on dice rolls (both...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Fourteen Shakes the Baby” by Susann Cokal
Chris Collins: Susann Cokal seized me with her first sentence: “The first one is not so bad, hurts, grinding on the sticky floor with the others watching.” And what proceeds is the story of a character known to us only as...
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A Visit from Sandra Cisneros
Our new literary nonfiction editor, Kristen Iversen, is thrilled to welcome Sandra Cisneros to UC...
Read Moremicroreview/interview: A. Molotkov’s The Catalog of Broken Things
by José Angel Araguz In my reading of The Catalog of Broken Things (Airlie Press, 2016) by poet and 13.1 contributor A. Molotkov, I found a thematic thread made up of moments within longer lyric sequences where the given speaker...
Read MoreA Very Angry Baby
Only a little over a month left to submit your Very Angry Baby material for our new press’s themed anthology. We’re pretty much full for fiction but still seeking poetry and hybrid forms. Remember: the baby need not...
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