Monthly Archives: January 2012
Jessica introduces the winter 2012 issue
As I sit down, we’ve just sent the winter issue to the printer, and it is a cold day in south Louisiana, very different from the days when I first read the poems that now fill this volume. I distinctly recall the first time I read every poem in the issue. They are exceptional, and […]
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Opening Envelopes
Giving a guest lecture at Grub Street in Boston this October, I found myself revisiting the question of what good writing is. I’d been invited to speak at Cam Terwilliger’s class on narration and point of view, “Telling the Story: Perspective, Narration, and Imagination,” to provide an editor’s opinion. After the day’s craft lectures and […]
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