Shannon Burns on “Blue Thing Feeling”
In this week’s Revisionings, the poet Shannon Burns shows the benefit of occasionally...
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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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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...
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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Laura van den Berg’s “Find Me”
Real Pants is psyched (are psyched?) that Laura van den Berg—author of the acclaimed short...
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Mel Bentley’s “Fish Song”
This week’s Revisioning is from Philadelphia’s Mel Bentley, author of the chapbook...
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Revising (from Michael Kimball’s “The 1-Hour MFA”)
Lucky for us (all of us), novelist Michael Kimball has let Real Pants publish an excerpt from his...
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Ed Steck’s “An Interface for a Fractal Landscape”
Should you get the opportunity, I recommend being driven around by Ed Steck late at night in a...
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Chris Mason’s “Normals Books and Records 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore Maryland”
In this Revisionings, great Balto poet and effortless human being Chris Mason gives us a peek at...
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Morgan Parker’s “The Book of Exodus”
Revisionings is when a writer gives us a glimpse of the unseen phases in the development of a writ...
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