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,...
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...
Collier Nogues: Pushing your Material Around
Audre Lorde wrote, decades ago, that “there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” I’ve always loved that quote,...