Essay and Interview

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Trajectories

Crossing the Map of Poetry

By Carolyne Wright
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A poetic arc towards understanding and communicating with individuals, languages, and cultures on their own terms

First Encounters with AI

Writers on Writing

Edited by Nina Beguš
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview
Series: Writers on Writing

A fascinating look at the future of creative writing

What the Mirror Said

The Necessity of Black Women in Poetry

By Ashley M Jones
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Finding the glow of possibility in poetry

Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds

Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire

By Wendy Xu
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold

Love... and Death

Talks on Contemporary and Perennial Themes

By Abraham Kaplan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Essays and Conversations

By Philip Metres
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Resistance through writing

Nothingism

Poetry at the End of Print Culture

By Jason Schneiderman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the form and significance of poetry in a digital age

The Imaginary Present

Essays in Quantum Poetics

By Amy Catanzano
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science

Firsthand

How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things

By Keith Gandal
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Memoir
Series: Writers on Writing

On writing, researching, and tennis

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

poetry & parenting

By Nathaniel Perry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

The Next Draft

Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop

Edited by Brenda Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Essays inspiring readers to take an innovative approach to writing

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

A Braided Heart

Essays on Writing and Form

By Brenda Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction

The News from Poems

Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement

By Jeffrey Gray & Ann Keniston
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview

A groundbreaking collection explores contemporary American poetry’s relation to social critique and the public sphere

The Game Changed

Essays and Other Prose

By Lawrence Joseph
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era

Diary of a Poem

By Andrew Hudgins
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process

Two Minds of a Western Poet

By David Mason
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet

Selected Prose Works

Edited by Peter Jeffreys
By Constantine P. Cavafy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview
Series: Writers on Writing

The first appearance in English of important prose works by poet C. P. Cavafy

Unauthorized Voices

Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009

By Marilyn Hacker
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Editor of the acclaimed Poets on Poetry series collects her own essays on the subject

The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive

Essays and Commentaries

By Martin Espada
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet

Still on Call

By Richard Stern
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Modern Literature
Series: Writers on Writing

A prolific, popular writer takes on everything from the 1940s to E. L. Doctorow to blogging

First Loves and Other Adventures

By Grace Schulman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Award-winning poet explores the exhilaration of reading

Poetics of Dislocation

By Meena Alexander
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft

The Left-Handed Story

Writing and the Writer's Life

By Nancy Willard
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Writers on Writing

A collection of enlightening and entertaining essays and personal narratives on topics such as the craft of fiction, children’s literature, fairy tales, and art

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