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I never took a creative nonfiction writing class, yet I wrote a memoir and now teach creative nonfiction (or, more specifically, memoir writing) at Queens College and for the Vermont...

...as Major says below. Sometimes the kids, especially if they're still in school, just want more time to read: today at the Beacon blog education writer Chris Mercagliano has more...

I admire David Mason’s article “The Limits of the Literary Movement” in the December ’07 issue of AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle. Mr. Mason rightly calls our attention to the...

----------- "I can do what you do, but I can never feel human emotions as such. I suppose that it does. Yes I think that this is too soft, but I’m...

Poetry and Prophecy For the ancients, the two were very much intertwined—prophecies were given in verse, and one word for poet in Latin is “vates”—prophet. Both poets and prophets were...

After more or less admitting that I think exhortations to political poetry are essentially religious, I finally get my hands on a copy of Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet....

Today was one sensuous experience after another. After a NY Knicks basketball game in Madison Square Garden, (my first and they won against the Chicago Bulls!) I visited the...

What do these three things have to do with one another? 1. Lat week I gave a reading in a black box theater on the campus of a great university in...

I, as probably several of my fellow-bloggers here, published my first book as the result of a contest. In fact, the manuscript had been making the rounds for years,...

Manifestoes generally call for advanced mandates in the arts—so of course, I am going to read the manifesto of the New Athenians with some interest, thinking that I am going...