Tag: amwriting

• Lovingly Grateful: An Interview with Ross Gay; Interview conducted by Laine Derr

  Recipient of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), Ross Gay shapes language, roots fused with variegated ash, to chronicle experiences, the profane crafted sacred through simple gestures of doing and undoing, buttoning and unbuttoning, while resisting the need to dissect his artistry with “an X-Acto knife.”  When asked what…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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  amwriting, author, Education, fiction, Laine Derr, nonfiction, poetry, ross gay, university, writer, writing

• A Gesture of Love: An Interview with Carl Phillips; Interview conducted by Laine Derr

  I was honored when Carl Phillips, Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis, agreed to an interview. He is a prolific author whose most recent collection Reconnaissance (2015) continues to establish him as a leading poetic voice. When asked what advice he would give to someone new to writing, Phillips succinctly responded, “Read…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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• Emily, Beside Herself by Jennifer Fliss

  Emily was beside herself. Literally, beside herself. She wasn’t sure what happened or how it was even possible. One minute she was on the 2 train sitting between a woman reading The Alchemist (cliché) and a business suit with a cell phone clipped to his belt. (Also cliché. Also tacky and gauche). The next minute…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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  amwriting, fiction, Jennifer Fliss, school, university, writer, writing

• Watching TV by John Talbird

  When I was growing up, we had a twenty-five-inch screen television in every room. I watched the Doors perform “Light My Fire” on Ed Sullivan in my bedroom when I was just a little kid. Dad was home from work, sucking down a bumper of beer in his easy chair in the family room, Walter…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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  amwriting, fiction, flash fiction, John Talbird, writer, writing