Image: Ignacio B. Peña Greetings from Edinburgh, Scotland. I’m still under a week away from our first introductory workshop session, but I thought it best to write what it’s been like living in the city for what’s coming up on two weeks now. Arriving in the city still hasn’t proven to be the great big… Continue reading On the Move
Earlier this week, we had a bit of fake fall weather (don’t worry, folks, temperatures are back up into the 80’s) and I realized that I was already finishing up with my fourth week of classes. Not surprising, given that the reading load seems to be, hmm, densifying as time goes on? (All words are… Continue reading All about Class(es)
Image: Greg Keene What is it like living in Corvallis? How far does your stipend go there living wise? Living in Corvallis isn’t bad, but my frame of reference for college towns is pretty piss poor because I went to undergrad in rural Maine. That said, it’s pretty affordable to live in town (cheap housing can… Continue reading An Inside Look With Alana Folsom, Oregon State University ’16
Image: Reji For the last few weeks, I had not gone to sleep before 4 a.m. on most nights. A poet going to bed late is, of course, no big deal. Edna St. Vincent Millay once left a note for her housekeeper saying not to wake her because she’d been up working until 5 a.m.; … Continue reading “‘Passion Without Flesh, Love Without Climax’”
Image: Jain Basil Aliyas The first day of the Prose Poem class I was dismayed. My professor wanted us to write haiku. It was a moment before I could process what she was saying. Hai-who? Hai-What? No. No not that. It can’t be that. I write fiction and free verse poetry. Not that stuff. She wasn’t… Continue reading A Summer With the Prose Poem
