Jake Adam York
Craft Note: The Aubade: Poem of Beginnings
This is the first in a series of craft notes, developed in a conversation between me and Tarfia Faizullah who will join me at the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop (seats still available!). These notes will preview some of the issues…
A Few Notes on Craft — and Games
I remember clearly though it’s more than fifteen years past a graduate-school colleague standing up in the apartment of a friend, several hours of workshop conversation behind us, and declaring that he wanted to be remembered as a craftsman, a…
A Craft Note on The Craft Note
I spent this past weekend at the annual AWP Conference in Chicago, alternately overstimulated by the crowd in the bookfair and by the conversations in and around the panels. I participated in two panels that discussed intersections of race and…
The Fact of a Poem
Earlier this week, while there were some interesting—and interestingly broad—reactions to the excerpts from the forthcoming/arriving book The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal printed in Harper’s (see here and here by KR Writer’s Workshop’s own…
Forests of Trees: More on the Book as a Form (for Poets)
In response to my last post, Miss Redd writes: Pre-creating a book of poems before the book of poems has been written seems like an elaborate and tricky solution to the relatively simple project of putting a selection of poems…
