I wrote an article about a New York-based poet named Ryan Murphy and his chapbook publishing operation. It’s in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers, in the magazine’s annual look at independent presses. (The article will not be available online, but the print edition appears to have shipped.) I’m hoping that the piece inspires [...]
“Has anyone ever heard [N.B. Link removed; no longer extant],” Laurel asked, “of an artists’ colony or retreat that will allow a writer with children to bring her children?” I wrote her in an e-mail: “The new edition of the Artists Communities guidebook has a handy chart on p. 264, in the indices section, showing [...]
Almost twenty years and seven books after getting my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine—and seventy years after the founding of the original, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop—I still get questions about writing programs, as if my having come through one was a flukey detour like a hitch in a Goofy suit [...]