The Loire (1896), Alfred Sisley Insurgent: Notes on the River and the Line I. In 1998, Robert Pinsky asked a question about the line: ...

The Spiritual Lives of Poems: A Craft Talk by Malcolm Tariq This craft talk was originally featured in SER's Writer's Regimen: Your...

The Announcement: Creating Suspense by Spoiling the Plot Creating suspense is one of the most difficult tasks of writing a novel,...

"Finding Light in the Deep Dive" : A Craft Talk by Ashley Marie Farmer Photography credit: Ryan Ridge Last year, I published Dear Damage...

“ Más en la poesía y menos en el poema”: A Craft Talk by Ana Portnoy Brimmer Photography credit: Carolina Porras Monroy. This craft talk...

David James Poissant's craft talk, “Find, Replace: Revising Prose Style in a Microsoft Word World,” was originally published in The...

Amy Meng's craft talk, “Know Thyself,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017 Writer’s Regimen. The problems I...

Ebenbach's craft talk, “You're Unreliable, Too,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017 Writer’s Regimen....

Roripaugh’s craft talk, “Five Uneasy Pieces About (Writing) Anger,” was originally published in The Southeast Review 's October 2017...

I learned a good deal about writing from watching and listening to jazz musicians. More specifically, I learned about the effective use...

When Chekov famously asserted, “if a gun is on the mantle in the first act, it must go off in the third,” he probably did not intend for...

Duende has many definitions, but we will focus on Federico Garcia Lorca’s extensive writings on it, looking at duende through the lens...

1. First off, poems aren’t magical things that plop from the air and onto your plate, fat and greasy like Grandmother’s dumplings. It...

There is no such thing as a poem without imagination. There are poems without metaphors that can work, poems without similes that can...

It’s a very good thing to have poems you admire rattling round in your head. They are schooling figures for the mind and good company,...

I don’t like to write about writing. Stepping outside of my writing makes it hard to get back in, like kissing might be after a...

Why I Didn't Write Ken Gordon For a long time I was on the lam. My crime? Well, not to frustrate your gun lust, to deprive you of your...