“The Story You Want, The Story You Need” by Ellen Rhudy: Halloween Special
Ellen Rhudy’s “The Story You Want, the Story You Need” is an elegant reminder that all ghost stories are stories of grief and longing.
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What’s Poetry Got To Do With It?: Halloween Special
In need of a scare? Why not read poems that haunt, frighten, and keep us company these October nights?
The Orison Anthology, Best of the Net, and PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Nominations
We’re so excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Orison Anthology, Best of the Net, and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize!
On Eating: Comfort Me with Food Writing
Food is what we have inside us, literarily as well as literally—which is why food writing is worth study as a craft model.
Announcing Our 2021 Contest Winners!
Congratulations to Barbara Paulus, Faire Holliday, and Emma Miao, our 2021 contest winners!
What’s Poetry Got To Do With It?: Space
What happens when poetry explores space, astronomy, and everything else that fills the sky on a starry night?
Special Feature: Two Erasures by Ted Snyder
Ted Snyder’s series of erasures and found poems is a stunning project, subversive, wily, and smart.
On Eating: An Introduction
Food is what we have inside us, literarily as well as literally—which is why food writing is worth study as a craft model.
Poetry at the Museum
What draws us, as writers, to museums, exhibits, and galleries? What is it about these spaces—real or imagined—that makes us curators in our own work?
Writers’ Day Jobs: Leah Umansky
Poet Leah Umansky on teaching middle- and high-school English.