An Introduction by Emma Bolden In her stunning experimental memoir The Betweens, Cynthia Arrieu-King writes of an “unexplained force” she […]
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A chain of paper dolls: in Melissa Ginsburg’s hands, this simple childhood craft project becomes a metaphor for […]
An Introduction to Melissa Ginsburg by Emma Bolden
We found things in the woods during nature walks in Sally’s American Lit class in high school. Things […]
Go On, Then by Darcie Abbene
Megan Culhane Galbraith is a 2016 Saltonstall Fellow and Director of the GIV/Young Writers Institute at Bennington College. […]
“The Primal Wound: Viewing and Reviewing Personal History” – a ...
Thousands of students receive undergraduate and graduate degrees in Creative Writing each year. Many pursue careers […]
Writing Outside the Academy: A Discussion, curated by Emma ...
I didn’t know him well. How many women’s stories start that way? I didn’t know him […]
Strand Tests by Emma Bolden
Seth Landman’s poetry is not perfect. It’s digressive and recursive, rambling and at times even ranting. It feels […]
The Luminous Cracks in Seth Landman’s Confidence
To read u&i, Cassandra Smith’s frustratingly gorgeous and gorgeously frustrating full-length collection of poetry, is to be immersed […]
“WE NEVER LEFT THE ROOM WE MADE OF IT”: MEANING, ...
In her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson raises Kafka’s famous question: “‘If the book we […]
“CRUELTY OF THE ARGO?”: MAGGIE NELSON’S THE ARGONAUTS
We worked at the same college, he and I, and though I tried very hard, we never […]