from Jan Clausen Over at Jacket2, that slightly obscure but thoroughly indispensable resource for thinking poetry, MFAW alum Jill Magi (most recent book: Labor) is pursuing a multi-month reflection on connections between textile production and the making of poetry. I...
In honor of the publication of Bhanu Kapil’s newest book Ban en Banlieue, published by Nightboat Books, the writers Amina Cain, Jenny Zhang, Sofia Samatar, and our own Douglas A. Martin, gathered together in a conversation for The Believer to talk about the work of...
Novelist and documentary filmmaker Laleh Khadivi is joining the faculty in Port Townsend this semester. Introducing herself in her own words, Laleh writes: "I came to literature through film. My documentary work has focused on the criminal justice system and...
By Bhanu Kapil (Originally published on The Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, for national Poetry month, April 2012. Which means, for the entire poem, you have to go there. But to begin...) How to Write a Poem 1. Eat the raw heart of a horse. This will distinguish...
I was doing some research (i.e. “avoiding work/killing time online”) when I found an old piece on Quora, a content partner with Slate. It posits the hypothetical question, “what would happen if oxygen were to disappear for five seconds?” The respondent, a...
"Praised and admonished" faculty member Jan Clausen talks the importance of political poetry, forms, and the shouldn't-be-a-reminder that we are living in history on Tarpaulin Sky. Part One just posted. Part Two coming soon. Here's a taste of it. Read more at...
Los Angeles Review of Books has just published an essay by Faculty member Aimee Liu comparing Sarah Koenig's brainchild to Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont -- with shouts out to Anthony Doerr and Alan Dershowitz in the bargain. This essay was written with the...
Post State of the Union, the speech that is still sounding in my mind is one that was given back in November: Ursula Le Guin’s address at the National Book Award ceremony. Yes, she chided us for selling books “like deodorant,” but these are the words that are...
Arielle Greenberg includes a meaty, enthusiastic discussion of Jan Clausen's Veiled Spill: A Sequence in her latest American Poetry Review column under the heading "What to Read Now: Some Vital Books from 2014." Greenberg's nuanced appreciation for work that refuses...
Yes, Goddard MFA faculty member John McManus has just returned to us after a year in South Africa on a Fulbright scholar grant, but living and teaching on another continent does not mean that he disappeared from publishing life. John has a new story collection...
