Kyle Dargan, poet and professor at American University, reflects on commuting from his home in southeast Washington, DC to the tony neighborhoods around the university and on poetry’s ability to effect change.
From the Writings blog, an interview with DC poet, editor, and literary historian, Dan Vera. Red Hen Press recently awarded Vera the 2013 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize for his second poetry collection, Speaking Wiri Wiri. Vera is also co-founder of DC Writers’ Homes, a web site that documents the homes of literary authors who [...]
From Thing X, a video featuring writer Susan Orlean in which she addresses the Meryl Streep controversy and lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor and how crazy people are the best subjects to write about.
From UDC Cable Television, poet and scholar E. Ethelbert Miller interviews Darius Bost, PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park about issues of African American and queer scholarship.
Niki Herd’s poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin received honorable mention for the Benjamin Saltman Award and was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Award. Herd’s work has been supported by the Astraea Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Nominated twice for the Pushcart [...]
Jennifer Wallace teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She is a poetry editor at The Cortland Review and a founding editor of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Minor Heaven, appears in Desire Path (Toadlily Press, 2005). In 2009, she directed a short documentary, Inter:View, A Conversation About Nature and the City. [...]
Marion Winik is the author of eight books of creative nonfiction and poetry. Her forthcoming book, Highs in the Low Fifties (Globe Pequot Press) is scheduled for release in July 2013. Her other works include The Glen Rock Book of the Dead (Counterpoint, 2008); Telling (Random House, 1994), a best-selling collection of personal essays; First Comes Love (Random House, [...]
Justin Sirois is a writer living in Baltimore, Maryland. His books include Secondary Sound, MLKNG SCKLS, and Falcons on the Floor (Genius Publishing Press) written with Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. He also runs the Understanding Campaign with Haneen and co-directs Narrow House. Justin received individual Maryland State Art Council grants in 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2011 and [...]
The Girls Club (Bywater Books) follows three sisters as they love, argue, and struggle their way through adolescence to womanhood, taking in religion, illness, parenting, sexuality, drugs, and rock ‘n roll on the way. Bellerose was awarded a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts based on an excerpt from this The Girls Club, and the [...]
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