Inspiration(s) for “The Working-Class Ophelia”
STEPHANIE DICKINSON
Frozen like a thing of stone
I sit in thy shadow [read more]
Inspiration from Julie Marie Wade
THE ADVENT CALENDAR AS HERMIT CRAB
I wrote “Advent” in autumn 2018 while [read more]
What inspires you? Amy Stuber answers.
We asked Spring issue contributor Amy Stuber to share what inspired her story “Picturebook,” and we [read more]
What inspires you? Aline Mello answers.
We asked Lost & Found issue contributor Aline Mello to share what inspired her poem “Studying for the Citizenship Test with My Mother,” [read more]
Origins and Inspiration from Raul Palma
Raul Palma
UNIVERSAL JUDGMENT
I wrote the first draft of “[read more]
Inspiration from Kieran Wray Kramer
SEE AND BUILD
For me, with writing, I know a story will come. This is a gift my childhood gave me. And it’s because I lived close to the [read more]
Contributor Spotlight: Terry Ann Thaxton
Terry Ann Thaxton’s “How My Body Was Made,” an elegiac model of how an essay can function as both visceral and emblematic, appears in our current issue,
Inspiration from Jeff Hardin
THE EDGES WE SHARE
For years, I have addressed poems to specific poets—my “wider fellowship,” as I refer to them—considering how our lives, if not our poems, [read more]
Contributor Spotlight: James Gallant
“Ferranti and Sivori,” a dark and musical telling, appears in our new Spring issue. Author James Gallant agreed to share more about the story and his writing with [read more]
Contributor Spotlight
Contributing editor Theodore Worozbyt’s books are The Dauber Wings (Dream Horse Press, 2006); Letters of Transit, winner of the Juniper Prize (The University of Massachusetts Press, 2008); [read more]
