Thousands of students receive undergraduate and graduate degrees in Creative Writing each year. Many pursue careers in academia but face an increasingly difficult job market. According to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ 2015-2016 Report on the Academic Job Market, there were 890 academic jobs listed in […]
I didn’t know him well. How many women’s stories start that way? I didn’t know him well. He was older. He was, I and my friends assumed, somewhere between thirty-five and forty. I was nineteen and I wouldn’t have met him were it not for that playwriting class, […]
Seth Landman’s poetry is not perfect. It’s digressive and recursive, rambling and at times even ranting. It feels raw, unedited, and more like a draft than most contemporary poetry – which is exactly why it is important. There is little argument that over the past two decades, the writing, reading, […]
To read u&i, Cassandra Smith’s frustratingly gorgeous and gorgeously frustrating full-length collection of poetry, is to be immersed in an experience that changes you. I began reading for answers; by the end of the collection, I gained not answers but a deeper appreciation of questions themselves. u&i is the perfect […]
In her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson raises Kafka’s famous question: “‘If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?’” In The Argonauts, Nelson delivers that blow on the skull. I turned […]
We worked at the same college, he and I, and though I tried very hard, we never loved each other. We spent the last weekend of summer in that bar with the blue lights and the well drinks. There was always a sad rock song. It was never definable […]
