Craft Musings on Beginnings and More, from Our Editors
Three of our editors on the craft of beginnings and more
Blog
Alums Lily Meyer and Sarah Rose Nordgren to Read at UC
UC grads Dr. Lily Meyer and Dr. Sarah Rose Nordgren will return to read their creative work this Thursday, September 5, at 5:30 p.m.
Interview with Editor-in-Residence Erica Dawson
Learn about our poetry editor-in-residence for the spring issue, reading submissions this fall, Erica Dawson
The Scoop on Withdrawals
Submitters tell us why they didn’t withdraw a piece accepted elsewhere.
From Our Contributors: A Tour of Crimea with Yekaterina Droog
3 minutes reading time Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter: As North Americans, when we think about current-day Crimea, our first, and perhaps only, association may be with war. In her haunting essay in Issue 21.1, “Gone Are the Blackberries, the Alycha, the Asters, and the Rusty Spigot,” Yekaterina Droog pays tribute to her grandfather’s lost …
“A Magical, Marvelous, or Fantastic Chronicle of Death Not Yet Told” by John T. Howard
An extensive (maCRo?) essay on magical realism in Latin American literature, family history, Colombia, and the magical in the everyday.
In Praise of the Paper Trail (and Eliminating It Too)
The unexpected rewards of going through a lifetime of saved paper.
From Our Contributors: Hadley Moore On Iconic Images of Our Assassinated Political Heroes
Hadley Moore explores what we can learn from photos of our fallen heroes.
From Our Contributors: Down the Rabbit Hole—Strange Rabbits in Art, by Nikki Barnhart
Nikki Barnhart shares the artworks that inspired her story in issue 21.1, “Rabbit, Rabbit.”
From Our Contributors: Rethinking The Urban Pastoral, by Malik Thompson
“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”