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Food/Writing [by Rebecca Lindenberg]
I love reading about food. Cookbooks, blogs, essays, you name it. And since everybody eats and therefore thinks about food, you can find writing about food from novelists…
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Mystery of AWP Elevator Poems Solved!
Jim Cummins' post yesterday about the video loop in the elevators at the recent AWP conference in Chicago caused a bit of confusion. Turns out, the videos were provided by Motionpoems, a Minneapolis-based organization…
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Mad Men by Jim Cummins
Two men walk through the boardroom. Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask. Each man is afraid of his own death, but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill. Each…
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AWP CONFERENCE – CHICAGO – 2012 (by Jim Cummins)
Along with approximately 10,999 other registrants, I attended the recent AWP Conference in Chicago earlier this month. I also attended the first Woodstock, in August, 1969. They were similar events, minus the rock bands…
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Rebecca Lindenberg, Guest Blogger March 18-24
This week we welcome back Rebecca Lindenberg as our guest blogger. Rebecca is the author of the poetry collection LOVE, AN INDEX (McSweeney's Poetry Series, 2012). Her poems, essays, and criticism appear in The…
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Funeral Potatoes (by Rebecca Lindenberg)
This past Christmas, my parents came out here to Utah for the holidays, and the four of us (myself, Joseph, and my mom and dad) went out to Bountiful, Utah for a…
