Sustainable Scholarship

There is something rotten in Denmark: transforming life, scholarship, and writing toward a more sustainable paradigm —or —you’ve got the craft skills, now what are you going to do with it? By Karen Walasek Anyone alive who is paying attention knows that we are on a...

And have you read… The Cryptogram?

When The Writer was a student in the RUP Program at Goddard College, she got a part in Paul Zindel’s play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. It was her favorite play: she’d seen Eve Arden in it in Chicago at the old Ivanho Theatre, on...

A Shameless Act of Self-Promotion

By Jon Ulrich This September will see the release of my first book, Winter in the Wilderness. It’s been a long time coming. Success in writing, I’ve found, takes three things: persistence, luck, and persistence. I feel like I’ve won the lottery. In a way, I have. Not...

And have you read… Erebus?

The writer caught up with Jane Summer as her book of poems, Erebus, was being published. Q: How did you get the idea for your book? A: I actually didn’t get the idea. The idea got me—in a leg-hold trap. I grew tired of writing poems about how sad I was. After futzing...

Hybrid: a fragment for Bhanu Kapil

by Sarah Townsend I speak to you through a body that trembles as you suggest that we, some eight members of a seminar, remove something that we came with, let something go. Then, glancing around the room, you realize that it’s summer and our options are limited in...