Blog
Snowstorm: Winter Reading Recommendations
21 December 2018 on BlogIf you'd like to curl up with a good book this winter (or you need a last-minute gift) look no further than our winter reading recommendation list. From memoir to...
Nonfiction
“Objects and Bones” by Maggie Montague
14 December 2018 on NonfictionBy the time our bags were packed and our dogs hoisted into the van, ash had started to fall around us. The gray flecks covering the green grass were the...
Storystorm
The Score for a Voice
14 December 2018 on Poetry, Storystorm“Prosody is not much taught or talked about, since it was a form of institutional terrorism in the previous, metrical orthodoxy.” Robert Haas, Listening and Making Prosody is a spooky...
Fiction
“Cloudbringer” by Tess Allard
07 December 2018 on FictionKate is sixteen, willowy, freckled. Her calico dress is hemmed for a girl an inch shorter. She is standing in the dusty square and watching the man with the rain...
Blog
Twelve Notes
07 December 2018 on BlogI can’t stop thinking about Sam Elliott. His thundering voice, yes, which has haunted me since I first saw the Christmas movie Prancer as a little girl. But more than...
Poetry
“The Heart” by Arlene Naganawa
30 November 2018 on Blog, PoetryA door opened into her body, a cavern, pinpricks like electric wasps. Her fingers dimmed like fireflies drained of light. So this is someone’s work, she thought, the dimpled spider...
Storystorm
The Boring Post
30 November 2018 on StorystormThis fall, during a very, very long run, I wrote an entire story in my head. At its start, I had an inkling of an idea, and by its end,...
Storystorm
Presence in Poetry
23 November 2018 on Poetry, StorystormI write poetry to get weird. I want to be the weirdest me there is and then push that marker; I want to float, magnanimous as a blimp; to pop...
Nonfiction
“Leaning Into the Rocks” by Pamela Galbreath
16 November 2018 on NonfictionComets. Powerful, turbulent. Looming, in chilling silence. It is difficult to think of them as ice and gas. Easier for me to think of them as massive rocks set ablaze...
Storystorm
The Art of Ignoring
16 November 2018 on Fiction, Storystorm16A writer’s voice is their holy grail: key to their success and an absolute nightmare to find. What a strange conundrum, that finding your voice is hard. It should be...
Poetry
“Digging” by Douglas Cole
09 November 2018 on PoetryI am digging my way through plateau clay pounding with an iron bar and pic axe lifting shovelfuls of rattling rock and pebble earth alone out here except for Tony...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kim Adrian
09 November 2018 on Nonfiction, The Writer's Hot SeatKim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir that David Shields calls “a stunning merger of form and content,” and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series and...
