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What the Pumpkin Wants [by Sonja Johanson]
It is, as they say over at McSweeney’s, decorative gourd season…. As a dedicated vegetable lover, the characterization of edible squashes as “gourds” grieves me. We portray them merely as colorful fall decorations,…
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Word of the Day: “Otiose”
o·ti·ose ˈōSHēˌōs,ˈōtēˌōs/ adjective 1..serving no practical purpose or result. "So we must be vigilant in keeping story lengths appropriate. Bluntly — but obviously, I hope — every story should be as…
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THE POEMING (by Sonja Johanson)
This fall people worry about clowns in the woods. The evil clown image can be found in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, but Stephen King’s Pennywise from It gets most of the blame these days. The…
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Making Your Way in Poetry without an MFA (by Sonja Johanson)
My first morning at Bread Loaf, our workshop leader asked if everyone was familiar with the Iowa workshop model. I raised my hand. “I’ve never taken any kind writing class or workshop in my…
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Sonja Johanson, Guest Author October 10-14
This week we welcome Sonja Johanson as our guest author. Sonja is president of the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association. She is a contributing editor at the Found Poetry Review, and the author of Impossible Dovetail…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Steven Cordova
LYCANTHROPES IN LOVE by Steven Cordova The first man is in a chair, his barber behind himshaving the hairs off the back of his neck. There's another, a second man:He's in the…
