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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 of...
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...
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...
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,...
