Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin: Journal, Day Five January 27, 2006: Cate Marvin and Michael Dumanis recently edited an anthology together. This week, they’re trading journal entries about the process. Michael here, with one final diary entry. It occurred to me, as I was reading the multiple threads below, that there may be a perception or expectation that in coediting an anthology of contemporary [...] by Michael Dumanis

Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin: Journal, Day Four January 26, 2006: Cate Marvin and Michael Dumanis recently edited an anthology together. This week, they’re trading journal entries about the process. Michael here. I'm going to post once more. Cate'll chime in. And then we'll answer a few of your questions on Friday. When I look at a poem I want to the opportunity to be blown away before I even [...] by Michael Dumanis

Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin: Journal, Day Two January 24, 2006: Cate Marvin and Michael Dumanis recently edited an anthology together. This week, they’re trading journal entries about the process. It's Michael here. When I was a high school student in Rochester, New York, one of my English teachers told us that the primary function of a poem was to communicate. I took that to mean that, when we [...] by Michael Dumanis