Sentimentality & Dogma : A Craft Talk by Kevin Prufer Exotic garden (1954), Kurt Seligmann Many years ago, I was asked to give a short...

Pond in the Woods ( 1862 ), Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña This Must Be the Place I live in the woods, and the trees in these parts...

Untitled Film Shill #56 (1980), Cindy Sherman Writing to Heal or Writing to Share: Beyond “Mere Expression of Emotion” in Personal...

Audre Lorde wrote, decades ago, that “there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” I’ve always loved that quote,...

As a kid, I collected snow globes. As many as I could get my hands on. The weirder the better. One was a red kaleidoscope with the snowy...

It’s the moment when you’re finishing up the first draft and you’re second-guessing every decision you’re made so far. Will readers...

The Self and Not: As I wrote the poems in my first collection, Full Cry, over eight years or so, I often drew from the well of what I was...

Maybe the most important part of writing for me has been learning to trust the part of myself that wants to put strange things together....

Today is August 9, 2012, and so far this year I have done 37 public readings, in 14 cities around the country. Giving public readings is...

“[F]or I was not aware of the importance of health, I mean the absolute necessity of having a healthy body to avoid disaster in the...

An audience needs to be able to understand and sympathize with the characters they meet in stories. As such, characters often adhere to a...

Say What You Need To, And No More Eric Sasson Very often new (and sometimes not-so-new) writers forget how important it is to create the...