Category: From our Contributors
On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character
A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa
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Robert Thomas reads from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook”
Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.
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From Our Contributors: A Tour of Crimea with Yekaterina Droog
3 minutes reading time Photo by Artem Bryzgalov on Unsplash Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter:...
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From Our Contributors: Hadley Moore On Iconic Images of Our Assassinated Political Heroes
Hadley Moore explores what we can learn from photos of our fallen heroes.
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From Our Contributors: Down the Rabbit Hole—Strange Rabbits in Art, by Nikki Barnhart
Nikki Barnhart shares the artworks that inspired her story in issue 21.1, “Rabbit, Rabbit.”
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From Our Contributors: Rethinking The Urban Pastoral, by Malik Thompson
“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”
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From Our Contributors: The Tubercled-Blossom Pearly Mussel Memorial Library of Hope, by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Mandy-Suzanne Wong welcomes us to a library where artists mourn, and collaborate with, mussels who may be extinct.
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From Our Contributors: A Playlist to Accompany “The Forager’s Guide,” by Rebecca Griswold
Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”
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Special Feature: Christine Hale on Kevin McIlvoy’s “Gemels”
Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of “Gemels,” a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.
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A Literary Pesto Recipe to Kick Off Your Spring
Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.
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Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision
“Not everyone will walk away from a computer into the vast outdoors and find help from a hawk. But over time, these ‘focused walkaways,’ which were first unexpected distractions, have become a scheduled part of my practice, my discipline.”
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Special Feature: Jim Palmarini’s “WELCOME TO THE READING”
A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.
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