As a poetry editor, one thing that I prefer is narrative poetry—don’t explain; show it.
INTERVIEW: Davon Loeb, Author of The In-Betweens
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Jason B. Rosenthal, Author of My Wife Said You Wanted to Marry Me: A Memoir
In March 2017, Jason’s wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, penned her final goodbye – an essay called “You May Want to Marry my Husband”.
WRITING LIFE: Sharpening My Focus by Michele Popadich
What will I see if I step closer to the heart of an essay?
CRAFT: Writing Up a Storm (How Severe Weather Alerts Improve My Prose) by Stephanie Hunt
From my desk I have the teeniest glimpse of Charleston Harbor, which means I’m a storm watcher, especially during hurricane season.
REVIEW: Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession
In stark prose, Trahan cuts to the core of her memories. “My mother had taught me by example to dread medicine,” she writes.
REVIEW: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
When one of his students asks how much one can “make up” when writing an essay, writer Paul Crenshaw replies, “Nothing…”
REVIEW: The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad by Rick Bailey
The forty essays in this slim collection span decades and move freely through time, memory association, and geography.
REVIEW: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
Moore was five…when her family was forced to evacuate Monrovia, walking for three weeks, until they reached a village near the Sierra Leone border.
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
Everything on the cover Vernon’s memoir screams confident, proud, fearless… the image fits her so well that it would be easy to think she’d always been this way…
REVIEW: What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
The lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun in English has been debated for centuries…
