Latest Poetry Articles

May 12

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher & film as poetry

A few quick notes to start: My new novel, Small Rain, is out on September 3. Please preorder it by asking at your local bookstore, or from your favorite online retailer. Here are a few links: Bookshop, Powells, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Amazon

Garth Greenwell ∙ 28 LIKES

Sarah

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I loved La Chimera. Can't stop thinking about it! This is a wonderful and very thoughtful review.

Michelle Kuo

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What a beautiful piece. Thank you for this, Garth.

The Recovering Line Cook

May 6

A Line Cook's Rant About... Recipes

The poetry of lived experience

Hello and welcome back to The Recovering Line Cook, the home for my recipes, personal stories, and essays on all things food. I just want to thank those of you who have upgraded to paid subscriptions recently. I am a restaurant cook who loves to write, I don’t have an agent in my corner or any of that business, and your financial support makes this proje…

Wil Reidie ∙ 79 LIKES

Hanne Blank Boyd

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May 6

My recipe notebooks contain few method notes, usually just enough to remind me of oven temperatures, goal textures, and things I know I’ll forget like “add potatoes at end of cooking so they don’t go to mush damn it.”

One of my favorite cookbooks is from 1911 and is written in Slovenian with a fair bit of German mixed in for fun. Recipes are mostly ingredients lists and method notes often include the phrase “in the usual way.” As in “whip the eggs in the usual way for binding fish,” in a recipe for what I suppose could be called pike quenelles but are (translated) “lake fish dumplings for clear soup.” The recipes are uniformly good. But you do have to know what you’re doing and as for pictures… it was 1911, go whistle.

dl meckes

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May 8

I hate cooking with recipes. I love the pictures and ingredient lists as a jumping-off point. There is nothing to compare to a keen sense of smell to know when something is done, timers be damned. I was a pro but am now a home cook. Nothing helps my technique more than cooking every day without leaning on favorites. I have retained few cookbooks. Pepin's La Technique takes me almost everywhere I need to go. I'm never happy with my first attempts, and as Mr. Foydel notes, repetition gets you where you want to go. The last thing I do is make it pretty, but I'm not consumed with that.

Things That Don't Suck

Apr 25

The Lifegiving Benefits of Befriending Our Mortality

A new poem for national poetry month

Sweet Community, As National Poetry Month nears its end, I thought it would be the perfect time to share a very new (and very long) poem I wrote about befriending my mortality and the countless ways that process has increased the joy in my life. If you’ve been subscribed to

Andrea Gibson ∙ 1579 LIKES

Wildlifeisjoy

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Apr 25

Oh. There aren't enough notebooks to contain the tally marks for the number of times the gift of your words have been my compass away from what I'm convinced every time is an inescapable loneliness. I can't wait to see you read in Denver, I bought myself a ticket the day after I came out at 37 as a gift to myself. I'll be the one sobbing in the front row.

Possible titles that come to mind after my fourth read:

I lost my wrinkle collection can I borrow yours?

One Size Fits Awe

Katie Morrison

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Apr 25

Brevity

Name it Brevity.

Thank you for sharing this. My life is so full of love and wonder yet I turn the shoulder to the days, as you say, looking for tomorrow.

I need to be here today. Tomorrow is never promised.

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Annie Ridout

May 8

5 ways my poetry brings me an income

And how you can make art and then use it - inadvertently - to sell courses and get new coaching or consultancy clients.

A few years back, I decided to be a poet for a year. I wanted to see if I could be a proper creative and earn an income from it. I discovered that I can do that (I earned £800 in my first week) but that monetising my poetry directly had a negative impact on my inspiration.

Annie Ridout ∙ 34 LIKES

Nicole Jensen

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May 8

This post took me happily spinning down the rabbit hole of all things Annie Ridout! Thank you for all the links of inspiration and motivation!

Tuğba Avci

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May 8

This sounds cool. So, will the how-to launch an online course be part of this course? As it says, five courses included

13ThingsLA

May 7

13ThingsLA: May 8

Poetry, Public Art & Painting for your LA Art Calendar

Featured: Senon Williams The Getty Center’s Poetry in the Garden series continues on Wednesday, May 8 at 2pm with Senon Williams. Musician, painter, poet, and sometimes parade leader Senon Wiliams spent several weekends last year heading up the Sunset Hiking Club

Shana Nys Dambrot and HIJINX ARTS | 13 THINGS LA ∙ 6 LIKES

Rabbit Room Poetry

May 7

Doing Theology With Poetry—Abram Van Engen

When I first fell in love with poetry, I had no idea what I was reading. The poem—a compact little thing of two stanzas by Gerard Manley Hopkins—had a series of words that all seemed to make sense individually, but simply confused when they were combined. It was apparent from the beginning, however, that the poet’s goal was not just to convey some kind …

The Rabbit Room ∙ 33 LIKES

Cynthia Ann Storrs

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May 7

Outstanding analysis with helped me to appreciate so much more! I love the density of poetry-- a poetry says in so few words what it takes the essayist paragraphs to unpack.

Michael Fox

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May 7

This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever read. Not only the poem, but also the lovely literary tour of the poet’s thoughts and words provided by the professor. Thanks for this.

The Liminality Journal

Apr 28

announcing this year's poetry theme!

words are hope

Friends, If you’re new here, you might not know that every year we have something at The Liminality Journal called a poem a day in the month of may. It’s almost May, everyone, and I am so ready to lean into a practice of poetry writing with you! It’s one of my favorite things. Each day throughout the month of May, I’ll sen…

Kaitlin Curtice ∙ 76 LIKES

Kathryn A. LeRoy

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Apr 28

Hope is a sacred word. A word that reminds me of endless possibility. Thanks for the inspiring theme.

Karri Temple Brackett

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Apr 29

So excited!!!

The Soup

May 4

April is for Crying (and Poetry)

my collaboration with Drew Jackson, Seattle tears, and BBQ pork

April is for crying in public, or maybe it’s just me. Every year around this time I fly to Seattle to spend a few days with my favorite people at the Inhabit conference. As part of the Parish Collective fellowship, I’m always asked to contribute in some way. Being in that room each April, among people who see the world through the lenses of faith and pl…

Shannan Martin ∙ 42 LIKES

Beth Mork

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May 4

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing about parish collective as well.

What a beautiful theme to pray into. Solidarity. This is my favorite quote so far. So true. So beautifully Jesus. Reframes it all for me when I pay attention. Thank you!

His life was tuned to the rhythm of ordinary, relentless, togetherness. Slow and often boring.

He shows us a way of being that it so basic, we risk missing its magic

Megan Sciarrino

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May 4

Thank you for sharing these stunning words and a bit about how you stitched them together across long roads and shared sky.

I’m holding onto this one for sure. ⭐️

CRAFT TALK

May 14

#1000WordsofSummer 2024 FAQ

All your questions answered here!

Hi friends. The seventh year of #1000wordsofsummer starts June 1. There are nearly 40,000 of you signed up. I am so dazzled by this number. I am so dazzled by all of you, frankly, showing up here, whether it’s year after year or your very first time. This is a challenging but rewarding project and I can tell you already: you got this. And I will be here …

Jami Attenberg ∙ 134 LIKES

iHanna

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I am excited to join for the first time! I just found this Substack last summer and too late to participate, but I feel a great need to write more and more often, so June is the time! Thanks Jami for encouragement and guidance through this journey!

Cheers from summer-warm spring in Sweden 🇸🇪🎉🥳💕

Maureen O’Connor Saringer

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I have tried to do #1000 words multiple times and have not finished in what felt like success to me. This year, I have more understanding of why my writing has felt paralyzed for so many years; thank you #Al-Anon. Anyway, I loved the book, Jami, and I appreciate you doing this project. It means a lot that you'd take time, when you have so many other things going on, to set this up for us.

Poetry Unbound

May 12

Poems as Teachers

Conflict and the Human Condition

Dear friends, At the end of 2023, I asked if you had particular questions about poetry or Poetry Unbound. Occasionally, I delve into that treasure trove of queries and use it as inspiration for the weekly newsletter. However, there were some questions that felt like they deserved more attention, namely questions about poetry and conflict:

Pádraig Ó Tuama ∙ 136 LIKES

Thomasin LaMay

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I've followed this substack for a long time, but never made a comment. But I wanted to share how writing a poem can be an act of mutual healing in violent spaces. I teach in a trailer school in Baltimore with teens who are in very challenging neighborhoods, and one way we work out disagreements when they happen is for them to write a poem together about their differences -- make it one poem even if it contains disagreement. I do lots of other writing with them, but this one has led to lots of openness. A few weeks ago one team then used the erasure technique to make the poem, in their words "take out the hate but leave the hurt."

Jonathan Auyer

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I am so looking forward to these episodes. I always try to incorporate art into the classes that I teach, especially when the classes don’t directly deal with art— it affords students a chance to re-orient themselves to new sets of experiences, to apply past learning to new contexts, to embody their knowledge and experiences.

But poetry is so my wheelhouse , and it is such a challenge for me to discuss. I don’t really know how to analyze or interpret it. Maybe it’s a fear of feeling like I need the answers before I pose the questions, and as Pádraig wrote, poetry isn’t here to give us the answers.

So I’ll throw a question back to the Substack crew: how would you introduce poetry in a non-poetry class?

The Colour | Newsletter | Lab | Community

Apr 27

Make Money with Poetry

In which I make ink for an International Poetry Prize

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. —Joan Miro

Toronto Ink Company ∙ 40 LIKES

Michelle Lubash

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Apr 28

I'm not a poet, although I've written some poems (of the variety that mostly speak to me). But have always felt that poetry is the only kind of writing I could ever possibly do, should I ever seriously try to. I get why you feel that ink making and poetry making are related - both seem to involve distillation and essences and illumination, or putting one's finger exactly on the tender point.

Lisa de Nikolits

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Apr 27

I’m so curious why the crushed pink carnations wasn’t allowed. I agree - the stories it held!

I’m a constant, enthusiastic and consistently failed poet.

I’m also concerned about money. I also realized last year, what with the relentless march of the AI (among other factors), that I just couldn’t hack being a graphic designer/art director in the corporate world any more. I just don’t have the stomach for it.

So I got a grant and now I’m six months into becoming a PSW. Last week was my first stint in the LTC home and I’m already in love with all my residents and I just want to look after them forever.

This course is insane though - the sheer volume of materials - and I’m not used to studying and I’ll be so relieved if I can pass the exam in July and have my life back.

My idea was to do something more meaningful while hoping that the tide of the small book presses will turn so I can carry on writing my oddball books (self publishing isn’t an option I want to explore - I’m not judgy, it’s just not my thing).

Finding a new publisher may be a futile dream and my authorly life may well die along with my once having been a magazine art director which was, for 24 years, the reason I got out of bed.

Anyway!! Sorry!! This is just to say (and no, it’s not about the plums), that we have to somehow forge on, forage on - and keep creating and writing.

And I ❤️ Poetry Forever.

Beyond the Bookshelf

Apr 30

Terrified of poetry? Why yes, I am.

My experience with poetry and a review of Maya Popa's new collection

Welcome to Beyond the Bookshelf, a community of readers and writers sharing unique perspectives on life and literature through thought-provoking essays, captivating interviews, and influential books as we explore the challenges of life's transformative journey.

Matthew Long ∙ 99 LIKES

Maya C. Popa

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Apr 30

I am floored by this beautiful, thoughtful, generous review and loved reading all of your personal reflections AND the useful historical context. Thank you, thank you. 🫶🏼

Kristine Neeley

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Apr 30

I think one of the great beauties of poetry is that no matter what we believe about it (and ourselves in relation to it), it’s really only asking us to bear witness to it. For a long time, I forgot that poetry is less about what it meant to (or about) the author when it was written, than it is about what it brings up in and the meaning it takes on for the reader.

Thanks for sharing this review with us!

The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

May 16

Do you have an instinctive aversion to mob psychology?

This one's for you.

Dear You, Since I was a very little girl, I’ve believed deeply in the love contained in the hearts of individuals - while also having an acute awareness of and revulsion to mob psychology. I’ve never known whether this came from (a) being not personally bullied but a bit socially uneasy; (b) knowing that mobs had killed many of my family mem…

Susan Cain ∙ 175 LIKES

Kate Stanton

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I cannot even watch the scenes in movies or read them in fictional books. Bullying instantly makes me hyper-vigilant. I look forward to Dr. Amy Cuddy’s book and Bullies, Bystanders, and Bravehearts! She announced she was researching for this book at the same time I left a toxic workplace where I was being not only bullied, but harassed. I don’t want anyone to feel sorry for me. I share in case it may help another. I was always a very quiet and focused child, so I think people feared that and made up their own stories inside their heads of who I am or what I’ll do. My husband calls my grade school days “after-school special” as I was verbally abused & sometimes physically abused nearly daily. I’ve done some therapy which helped me reframe—“weird”, “quiet”, “snob”, and others were often used. What hurt the most throughout all my experiences are those that were spineless in defending me. Those I thought were friends or colleagues that I never expected the vitriol to come from. The rumors that were spread. Lies I believed for a long time.

I think anyone who stands out threatens the status quo/groupthink/order, so they try to beat you back into submission. It only made me more sensitive, compassionate, resilient, and wisdom. I’ve been told I’m an “old soul”, but what many don’t realize is I had been to hell and back several times before I reached double digits. I’m a survivor that has made mistakes and lives to share my lessons with others! Spin.

Leslie Herbert

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"nothing a mob does is clean" hit me like a punch in the gut. Even people with best intentions, in a large and restive crowd, can succumb to the mob mentality. I have a severe aversion to cruelty of any kind and a mob is diffuse, anonymous cruelty without having to bear full responsibility for what you do. Terrible.

Horace & friends

Apr 25

What is a poetry magazine for?

Or rather, for whom? A review of "The Poetry Review"

I was wondering this week why I almost never see reviews of literary magazines and poetry journals themselves. On the face of it, such reviews would be helpful, since magazines are the main venue in which poets publish new work for the first time, and there’s a bafflingly enormous number of them, both in print and (increasingly) online, each with their …

Victoria ∙ 33 LIKES

Nicholas Murray

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Apr 25

This was a very fair and judicious review. I am far less tolerant and skim most of Poetry Review these days, finding it of little interest. A poet friend of mine says he subscribes to certain magazines in the spirit in which one buys a bunch of charity raffle tickets: to show willing. Part of the problem may be that there is such a high turnover in editors that slowly building a magazine’s character/personality doesn’t happen. That takes time. But behind this is a much bigger problem of the lack of consensus about what is good and bad in contemporary poetry. We don’t want uniformity or bossiness but some convincing sense of what might matter is the basis of any decent, intelligible criticism.

Joseph Conlon

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Apr 25

Another terrific article. I would comment that the combination of narrowness and emphasis on diversity does not seem at all paradoxical in contemporary British intellectual culture. The parts of universities, for example, with explicit focus on diversity also seem to be those parts where the greatest monoculture exists in terms of worldview.

Looking at the prizewinners and commended poets in the competitions the Poetry Society run (e.g. their Nation Poetry Competition and Young Poets competition) the same kind of 'house style' seems to exist as for Poetry Review, in terms of a focus on identity and a strong preference for free verse. Indeed, this preference seems so marked that something like a regular sonnet would seem to stand out as much as the late Queen wearing hotpants.

I try as hard as possible to extend maximal charity to those with different tastes than my own, on the presumption that they see things I miss, but it does seem a shame that a body with such an explicit mission to promote the totality of poetry elevates so strongly forms that have cut ties with essentially all English verse prior to about 1920 and much of what comes after.

Wilderment

May 1

The Source of Poetry

An Homage to Poet and Mentor Linda Gregg (Sept 9, 1942 – Mar 20, 2019)

On the first day of graduate poetry workshop with Linda Gregg in 2006, I was surprised when she began class by talking about her daily practice of walking around her neighborhood (NYC’s East Village), and then went around the room so that each of us—by way of introduction—could share what we did for exercise. Though I don’t remember her exact words, the…

Sarah Rose Nordgren ∙ 9 LIKES

Shana Youngdahl

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May 1

Beautiful! I've loved Linda Gregg's poems for a long time and it is wonderful to read about who she was as a teacher and friend--it's inspired me as both writer and teacher today. Thank you!

ADPList’s Newsletter

Apr 23

Data-Informed Design

The data-design poetry department; dilemma & anthology how-to guide.

Hi, I’m Felix! Welcome to this week’s ADPList’s Newsletter; 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 weekly advice column. I write high-quality insights on designing products people love and leadership in tech. If you’re interested in sponsoring us, let’s chat!

Felix Lee ∙ 32 LIKES

Everything Is Horrible

May 10

This Week's Writing 5/10/24

Stormy Daniels' testimony, protestors and the media, lots of poetry.

Hello all! As I say with some frequency, thank all of you for reading my work and supporting me…and if you aren’t paying for a sub, consider doing so? It’s $50/year, $5/month. It keeps me scribbling! Here’s what I published this week: If you read one thing by me this week, read

Noah Berlatsky ∙ 26 LIKES

Story Club with George Saunders

May 16

Poetic? Prosaic?

Office Hours

This week’s question is a long one but, I think, well worth it. It’s articulate and detailed and describes a dilemma I’m guessing will be familiar to many of us. The questioner graciously said that I could cut it down as needed, but I like it at its full length:

George Saunders ∙ 152 LIKES

Eóin Dooley

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This reminds me of a story I heard from Alan Moore's class on writing. Apparently, Shakespeare, the master of invented vocabulary, used to place his fantabulous inventions right before moments of heightened drama. Per Moore, this let him dislodge his audience's assumptions about the activity taking place, making them more receptive to the story. There are supposedly MRI scans of people reading Shakespeare which light up like a Christmas tree when they encounter these words.

I can't vouch for the veracity of those details, but I think the technique itself is real. It seems to me that when you use more complex or surprising descriptions, you're necessarily forcing the reader to engage more with the text. This is setting aside the aptness of your analogies or the flow of your prose or what-have-you. Rather, it's in the pure and simple terms of demanding more attention to comprehend the language. By adding complexity at the right moment, you're making a request to the reader to dig deeper into the text, to ponder it, and to reevaluate what they have read.

Annemarie Gallaugher

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Such a great question and response. I was especially interested in the questioner's observation about the sentence from "The Mom of Bold Action." The questioner writes: "Clearly, 'went all shrivelled-apple' is doing the most work in this sentence to keep the reader in the Positive zone." My feeling is a little different. Just thought I'd share it here in the interests of thinking more about the question of what counts as "poetic" (disclaimer: I'm no poet or poetry expert, but come at this more from a literature and linguistics background). I definitely took note of "shrivelled-apple" since it's such great image, but, I didn't really linger on it. For me, I felt that the word "started" was what did the most work in the sentence. "Started" propelled me to stay in the P-zone and kept my curiosity going. The very word "started" cues or alerts me that something important is about to, well, start. And what starts is what I consider an absolutely beautiful line of poetry: "...started soundlessly and in slow motion pounding his fist into the arm of the couch." Why do I feel like that? For one thing, the alliteration of all those sibilant "s" sounds (partially foreshadowed with the "sh" in "shrivelled": e.g., started, soundlessly, slow, fist. Next the assonant vowels in the following pairs: soundlessly, pounding; slow, motion; started, arm." Third, the rhythm/meter--which I can never remember the technical term(s) for, but I can definitely "hear"--not just with my ear, but with my whole body--in the relationship of stressed/unstressed syllables. There are probably lots of other things going on in that part of the sentence that I'm not noticing yet, but for me, that's the undeniably poetic part of--so skillful, so gorgeous, and I'm guessing, so much work! I know George often talks about making choices and decisions about each and every word, but in this example, I can feel him making choices and decisions about every phoneme.

Sub Club

May 10

75 Most Competitive Flash Fiction Magazines in the Known Universe

Or, like, on Chill Subs or whatever

Benjamin Davis ∙ 20 LIKES

Andrei Atanasov

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That moment when you got personal rejections from like 10 of these but no acceptances yet😂

Norie Suzuki

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Thank you for the great list. It’s very comprehensive.

The Free Press

May 13

The Nonprofits Making Billions off the Border Crisis. Plus. . .

Michael Oren on Biden’s betrayal. La Leche League erases mothers. Eurovision. Qatari money in NY schools. Seinfeld’s commencement speech. And much more.

On today’s Front Page from The Free Press: Jerry Seinfeld’s Duke address on hard work and the importance of humor; Michael Oren on Biden’s betrayal; La Leche League erases mothers; Tanya Gold on Eurovision; and much more. But first, Madeleine Rowley investigates how federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children…

Oliver Wiseman ∙ 463 LIKES

Peter Sachon

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Solar energy? Please, be serious. Nuclear is the only contender worth discussing.

rob

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The crowd in Malmo was a lynch mob that would have murdered the young girl. As for her competitors, ever ones of those degenerates would be the first to prattle about love tolerance and identity, in practice they are hate filled cowards.

Incidental Comics

Apr 23

How to Make Poetry Comics

Six Exercises in Creating

To celebrate National Poetry Month and the publication of my book POETRY COMICS, I’m sharing this post from one year ago. If you’re inspired to use these exercises in your creative practice or in the classroom, please share them and tag me on social media @grantdraws—or tag

Grant Snider ∙ 173 LIKES

Binu Sivan

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Apr 23

I have never tried sketching my poems! I think I may be able to do it for a poem of mine called Cats. I will do it and tag you :). Thanks for this lovely article. It's making my 51 year old brain excited to try something new.

Olivia Truong

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Apr 23

Thank you for the guidance, i would love to share it for little kids

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

May 12

Amateur Writers vs Professional Authors

It was many years ago. I was in my mid-twenties. I had just completed my third novel—The Gaze. By now I had fully and painfully understood one fundamental truth about writing fiction—that it never ever gets easier. My first two novels, written in Turkish, had caused some sle…

Elif Shafak ∙ 945 LIKES

Shazaf Fatima

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Elif, I needed to read this today. Just a couple of years ago another editor told me I was not a career writer because I was raising 4 children and studying to be a teacher while writing my second novel. It really affected me - made me doubt myself. But I put it aside after a few years - no one can define us but ourselves. Lots of love to you.

Marcel van Driel

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I’m a Dutch writer of children’s books. As we live in a small country, with a small language area, most of us writers have a job next to writing. One of my colleagues, who has won important awards, works two days a week as an IT specialist. I teach kids how to write stories. If the amateur vs professional narrative was true (which it isn’t), none of the writers in small non-English speaking counties were professionals. None.

Rabbit Room Poetry

May 13

A Conversation With Malcolm Guite—Ben Palpant

An Interview by Ben Palpant | Words Under the Words No.9

This post belongs to a series of interviews between Ben Palpant and important contemporary poets. For more articles, videos, books, and resources about faith and art, visit RabbitRoom.com. Begin the song exactly where you are. Remain within the world of which you're made. Call nothing common in the earth or air. Accept it all and let it be for good. Start…

The Rabbit Room ∙ 26 LIKES

Garrison Keillor and Friends

May 11

My personal journey towards self-minimalization

Podcast 48 - "Lovers are real, families are real. Demonstrators, not so much."

These days we’re in the era of the Personal Position Statement as we saw in the recent National Book Awards ceremony in New York. There is no NBA for humor because the event is all about Taking Ourselves Very Seriously As Compensation For Slights We Have Suffered From The Uncomprehending World. The winner of the poetry prize, a man from Guam, accepted i…

Garrison Keillor ∙ 131 LIKES

Ed McShane

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You do good work

E. Jean Carroll

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Good one, Mr. Keillor!

Entering The Lung

May 15

BROADWAY GLAMOR UNAWARES

Back in NYC. Hell’s Kitchen. The capital of nearly being hit by motorized bikes and shit smears on the sidewalk. Clothing suddenly abandoned in piles as though someone jumped right out of them and ran down the poo-smeared street in the nude. Maybe they did? A carriage driver running a red light

Neko Case ∙ 154 LIKES

MariNaomi

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"humid little human forest" is achingly perfect poetry. I miss being lonely in new york! *hugs*

Chris Papps

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I'm hearing your words weave images of humanity and that poetry is the kind I want to connect with.

I have been staring into the future and it's making me feel deep blue and lonely in my heart. I am not alone and your stack helps keep me afloat. Hope our love gives you some buoyancy or girlancy even.

Thanks Neko.

Top 25 Poetry Articles on Substack

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La Chimera

A Line Cook's Rant About... Recipes

The Lifegiving Benefits of Befriending Our Mortality

5 ways my poetry brings me an income

13ThingsLA: May 8

Doing Theology With Poetry—Abram Van Engen

announcing this year's poetry theme!

April is for Crying (and Poetry)

#1000WordsofSummer 2024 FAQ

Poems as Teachers

Make Money with Poetry

Terrified of poetry? Why yes, I am.

Do you have an instinctive aversion to mob psychology?

What is a poetry magazine for?

The Source of Poetry

Data-Informed Design

This Week's Writing 5/10/24

Poetic? Prosaic?

75 Most Competitive Flash Fiction Magazines in the Known Universe

The Nonprofits Making Billions off the Border Crisis. Plus. . .

How to Make Poetry Comics

Amateur Writers vs Professional Authors

A Conversation With Malcolm Guite—Ben Palpant

My personal journey towards self-minimalization

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