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Writing Against: Training, Genre, and Poetic Interference

I am trained as an academic.I am not trained as a poet.  And yet the poetry came first. The loose-cannon, one-and-only chance, step-to-the-mic collection of..
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Bringing the Past Forward

Judy Goldman speaks with Stephanie Clare Smith about her memoir Everywhere the Undrowned and why the past is never behind us.
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When the Body Can No Longer Run

I run. Miles and miles and miles stretch out in front of me like the unraveling of a life. I run. Through woods and parks,..
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Every Woman Keeps a Flame Against the Wind

An essay by Kristen Millares Young.
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A Conversation with Melanie Brooks

I first met Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, at The Iota Short Prose Conference in the..
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the weapons in our lives

In times of trauma, tragedy, and unrest art becomes even more important. Creativity allows us to cope with and make sense of that which often..