When a block is not a block
by Liz Garcia · March 12, 2026“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” – Samuel BeckettThis is a version of that old freewriting exercise in which, when you can’t think of anything [...]
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On Walking, Wordsworth, and the Creative Spark
by Rachel PIttman · February 16, 2026When I was an undergraduate student, one of my Creative Writing professors gave our class an assignment to “go outside.” There were, of course, more [...]
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The Sealey Challenge: How Does it Help?
by Liz Garcia · September 24, 2025William Faulkner’s stated in a 1956 Paris Review interview to “Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.” Though I [...]
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“Somehow we got out of there alive / though we didn’t quite return:” On Kiki Petrosino’s WITCH WIFE
by Caroline Crew · September 24, 2018Kiki Petrosino’s third collection, Witch Wife, begins with the self-reflexive invocation, “Self-Portrait.” This poem ranges its language from the opening line’s keening question, “Little gal, who [...]
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Philip Levine: Beyond the Blue Collar
by Greg Emilio · November 07, 2016“Now I too am among the stars.” [...]
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Revival of the Spirit
by Charles Bailey · April 28, 2016The last dregs of my undergraduate college days are closing in. It is a melange of sleepless nights, anxiety, and molehills of coursework that would disturb [...]
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