First We Take Brian Williams
Here’s what Brian Williams said when he cut in on The Rachel Maddow Show to break the news of...
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Secret Famous Haiku Desk Part II: The Aftermath
As briefly as I am able: My sister’s boyfriend bought a desk used from a Four Seasons in...
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It’s Weird to Try to Champion Poetry While Also Arguing That Songs Aren’t Literature
IF SONGS AREN’T LITERATURE—AND THEREFORE AREN’T POETRY—THEN WHAT EVEN IS...
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Shannon Burns on “Blue Thing Feeling”
In this week’s Revisionings, the poet Shannon Burns shows the benefit of occasionally...
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Michael, Jim, Tom, Grant: We Have Found Your Desk Drawer!
“In addition to the actual haiku, the entire missive itself carried important details: the...
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Jensen Beach on “The Apartment”
In this Revisionings, Jensen Beach shows us how he used an editor’s note to transform a...
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Kyle Dargan on “Olympic Drive”
In this week’s Revisionings, Kyle Dargan shares the evolution of his poem “Olympic...
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Ripoffs & Revivals — Choosing a Book Font in the Cybernated Age, Part 1
Type has been around for a long time. When the first “modern” typeface was cut,...
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Ashley Farmer on “The Farmacist”
In this week’s Revisionings, Ashley Farmer shows us the small choices on which hung large...
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Cheryl Quimba on “Scattered Trees Grow in Some Tundra”
This week, Cheryl Quimba offers us a view of the process behind “Scattered Trees Grow in...
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Monica McClure on “Tender Data”
The poems in Monica McClure’s first full-length book, Tender Data (Birds LLC, 2015), speak...
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Anne Boyer on “Garments Against Women”
Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women (Ahsahta Press, 2015) is filled with prose as lyrical as...
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Kenneth Patchen the ‘Blathering’ ‘Creep’ vs. Allen Ginsberg the ‘Irresponsible Mountebank’
This makes me one of the dumb-dumbs who Allen Ginsberg seems to have been so annoyed with: When I...
Read MoreTimmy Reed on “School Spirit Was/Is for Suckers”
Watch Baltimore’s Timmy Reed turn a short story into a chapter of a novel by changing basically one thing. The explanation is followed by the full text of both versions. Here’s Timmy: . . . ...
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Amelia Gray on “Labyrinth”
This week in Revisionings, Amelia Gray takes us through the editing process behind her story...
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I Went to AWP and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
I’ve got to publish this now before it gets old. At the AWP conference, everything is...
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Revision as Katha: Five Translations of Sikhism’s Mūl Mantr
Mūl Mantr (“root mantra”) is a short composition by Guru Nanak (1469-1539), the first...
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Madeline ffitch on “The Private Fight”
I’m very happy that Madeline ffitch agreed to expose the process behind a piece of fiction...
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Lola B. Pierson’s “Office Ladies”
This is our first Revisionings to look at a piece of drama! Lola B. Pierson is a crucial member...
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I Make a Big Deal of It, “It” Being the Poem
A recent back-and-forth (conducted here) on sense and nonsense and charlatanry in poetry got me...
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