Close Writing Something peculiar is happening these days in the worlds of contemporary poetry and academic scholarship about […]
Forum in Poetics
Edgar Garcia is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019) […]
Edgar Garcia
The Truth of Diction Daniel Tiffany makes much of the root dict- in “diction,” and properly so. […]
Jeff Dolven
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
Kate Lilley is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University […]
Kate Lilley
It took me some seven years to clear my writing of the imprint of legal diction. One could […]
M. NourbeSe Philip
Michael Davidson is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent […]
Michael Davidson
Diction is to lexicon as parole is to langue; in positing this assertion as an axiom, I mean […]