Craft Essay by C.T. Salazar
The Loire (1896), Alfred Sisley Insurgent: Notes on the River and the Line I. In 1998, Robert Pinsky asked a question about the line: ...
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Craft Talk with Malcolm Tariq
The Spiritual Lives of Poems: A Craft Talk by Malcolm Tariq This craft talk was originally featured in SER's Writer's Regimen: Your...
Jan 263 min read
Craft Talk with Isle McElroy
The Announcement: Creating Suspense by Spoiling the Plot Creating suspense is one of the most difficult tasks of writing a novel,...
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Craft Talk with Ashley Marie Farmer
"Finding Light in the Deep Dive" : A Craft Talk by Ashley Marie Farmer Photography credit: Ryan Ridge Last year, I published Dear Damage...
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Craft Talk with Ana Portnoy Brimmer
“ Más en la poesía y menos en el poema”: A Craft Talk by Ana Portnoy Brimmer Photography credit: Carolina Porras Monroy. This craft talk...
Jul 9, 20187 min read
David James Poissant: Find, Replace: Revising Prose Style in a Microsoft Word World
David James Poissant's craft talk, “Find, Replace: Revising Prose Style in a Microsoft Word World,” was originally published in The...
Jul 1, 20183 min read
Amy Meng: Know Thyself
Amy Meng's craft talk, “Know Thyself,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017 Writer’s Regimen. The problems I...
Jun 25, 20185 min read
David Ebenbach: You're Unreliable, Too
Ebenbach's craft talk, “You're Unreliable, Too,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017 Writer’s Regimen....
Jun 11, 20186 min read
Lee Ann Roripaugh: Five Uneasy Pieces About (Writing) Anger
Roripaugh’s craft talk, “Five Uneasy Pieces About (Writing) Anger,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017...
Feb 11, 20164 min read
Maria Mutch: How to Play
I learned a good deal about writing from watching and listening to jazz musicians. More specifically, I learned about the effective use...
Jan 14, 20163 min read
Josh Booton: The Catfish on the Mantle
When Chekov famously asserted, “if a gun is on the mantle in the first act, it must go off in the third,” he probably did not intend for...
Jan 7, 20162 min read
Ciara Shuttleworth: Dancing with Duende
Duende has many definitions, but we will focus on Federico Garcia Lorca’s extensive writings on it, looking at duende through the lens...
Aug 27, 20153 min read
Kerry James Evans: Poetry Bootcamp
1. First off, poems aren’t magical things that plop from the air and onto your plate, fat and greasy like Grandmother’s dumplings. It...
Aug 13, 20153 min read
Sandra Simonds: Exercise in Negative Metaphor
There is no such thing as a poem without imagination. There are poems without metaphors that can work, poems without similes that can...
Aug 7, 20153 min read
Catherine Staples: Schooling Figures
It’s a very good thing to have poems you admire rattling round in your head. They are schooling figures for the mind and good company,...
Jul 30, 20154 min read
Geoff Wyss: Notes to Self
I don’t like to write about writing. Stepping outside of my writing makes it hard to get back in, like kissing might be after a...
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Craft Talk by Ken Gordon
Why I Didn't Write Ken Gordon For a long time I was on the lam. My crime? Well, not to frustrate your gun lust, to deprive you of your...
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