Don Bogen on Ashley Seitz Kramer’s Prize-Winning Poem: What I especially admire in “Winter Storyboard” is the way it builds. There’s a sense of confidence and deft control behind the rhetoric and varied syntax here, and the pacing is exquisite. With each couplet we are led deeper into a world of nature, the eccentric, and …
The winter 2011 issue is at the press! In the meantime, enjoy some bonus material. We asked all the writers in our summer issue to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue is out. Here’s what Kelly Davio, …
Michael Griffith on Theodore Wheeler’s Prize-Winning Story: In Theodore Wheeler’s “The Current State of the Universe,” a man working for a professional vengeance service discovers that the arithmetic of justice may turn out to be, on second thought, more like the hopelessly bewildering multivariable calculus of justice. The piece is a fantastic example of a …
We asked our contributors to comment on the poems, fiction, and nonfiction they contributed to our summer issue. Here’s what a few of them had to say. We’ll be posting more of these every week or so. Stay tuned. Angela Ball: Working on “The River Wants Grip” I found myself interested in naming a series …
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