The Truth of Diction Daniel Tiffany makes much of the root dict- in “diction,” and properly so. […]
Prose
It was the same seminar room where at the beginning of the semester Sarah listened to […]
Bird = Escape by Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Punning in Pure English One of the most compelling things about Daniel Tiffany’s essay for me is […]
Alexis Chema
Dear Daniel, My inclination was at first to say, simply, that I am broadly in accord with what […]
Barry Schwabsky
The promise of something new dangles, new house, new cat, same old husband and life, which […]
Everything is Everything Else by Laurie Blauner
Kate Lilley is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University […]
Kate Lilley
Renae was on her way to the set when she felt a crunch from behind after sliding to […]
She Broke by Elaine Little
Out of the butterfly room, they wander, turning the corner until the curator stops them in […]
Dioramas by William Auten
It took me some seven years to clear my writing of the imprint of legal diction. One could […]
M. NourbeSe Philip
Diction is to lexicon as parole is to langue; in positing this assertion as an axiom, I mean […]
Tyrone Williams
Jane Satterfield is the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in […]
Test Strip by Jane Satterfield
1 The young woman on the train is tall, slender, and has an attractive but unremarkable […]