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Thanks for the memories, Chicago by Stacey Harwood
(l to r: Stephanie Brown, Emma Trelles, Stacey Harwood, Laura Orem. Photo by Ming Holden) I just returned from the AWP conference in Chicago, where I participated in a panel discussion about this blog. …
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Amy Glynn Greacen, Guest Blogger March 4-10
This week we welcome back Amy Glynn Greacen as our guest blogger. Amy's poems have appeared and/or are forthcoming in: The New Criterion, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, Cimarron Review, New England Review, Birmingham Poetry…
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Diary as Form, or a Case for Hybrid Genres [by Megin Jimenez]
In one of her brilliant essays, poet and novelist Fanny Howe proposes the diary as the ultimate subversive genre: anarchic, directionless, unconcerned with narrative or context. (I believe it's in the collection The Wedding…
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Good news; Exit from the Monkey House [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, We’ve got a white sky here, no snow on the ground, but the air so cold the leaves all look ashen green which somehow comes off looking like another shade of sky-white.…
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Miscellany: Gender Disparity in Publishing, the Gift Economy, Envy [by Megin Jimenez]
Not much time to blog tonight, but I will share some assorted tidbits while I have the chance. The Count, 2011 VIDA: Women in Literary Arts just issued The Count for 2011, a breakdown…
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What Copywriting Taught Me About Poetry [by Megin Jimenez]
A few years ago, when I was working as a Freelance Everything (writer, editor, translator), I spent some time as a copy writer at Victoria's Secret, two days a week for about a year.…
