Jake Adam York
from A Field Guide to North American Blurbs
As I’m preparing two blurbs this weekend, I’m looking at a lot of blurbs and thinking about the genre. Maybe there are some observations to be made about the varieties of blurb so you’ll recognize them in the wild. Maybe…
Creative Exigency, Exhilaration, Exhaustion, and Expansion: A Postscript on the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops
I’ll say it: I’m exhausted. I spent 22 days in Gambier, Ohio, first as faculty for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and then for the KR Young Writers Workshop, in which I wrote every day. I’m looking at drafts of…
Cardio-Poetic Resuscitation
Earlier this week, at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop here in Denver, I attended a salon conversation in which three poets—David Rothman, Nicky Beer, and Seth Brady Tucker—discussed what they were reading. The lists, the reports, the recommendations hewed to the…
A Craft Note On the Duet (part 4) and On the Elegy (part 2)
Several several weeks ago now, Tarfia Faizullah and I exchanged notes on the elegy in what was billed as the first part of a multi-part craft note on the elegy. We went, from there, into a discussion of “Duets,” poems…
Craft Note: Duet (Part 3) — Beginning and Ending With A Reader’s Comment
In a comment on our last post, “Craft Note: Duet—Part Two (Ending With A Post By Tarfia Faizullah Ending With A Line By Vallejo),” Judith wrote toward an undeveloped idea that will move us into a third (and probably last)…
