January/February 1998

J.D. McClatchy, poet, liberalist, and memoirist, talks about coming of age during the Vietnam War, coming out of the closet in the '70s, and editing The Yale Review.

Features

Singing and Preaching: Christians in Writing

by James Calvin Schapp
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Challenges of being a Christian writer.

Confessions of a Poet: A Profile of J.D. McClatchy

by Lorin Stein
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J.D. McClatchy.

An Appetite for What Matters: The Hungry Mind Review

by Naomi Shihab Nye
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The success of the quarterly book review magazine, The Hungry Mind Review.

Expanding Poetry Calendar

by Paul Perilli
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Poetry Calendar goes from an events listing broadsheet to a cutting edge literary journal.

Dorset Colony House for Writers: Hidden in Plain Sight

by Lindsay Cobb
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Dorset colony.

Tips for Those About to Sign a Book

by Richard Dey
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The art of book signing.

Poets' Archives

by Joel Lewis
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As libraries become increasingly interested in acquiring poets' papers, writers who wish to sell their archives should take certain setps.

Writers' Rituals

by Tamara Kuhn
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The first challenge of writing is securing a zone of one's own.

Writers' Rituals

by Tamara Kuhn
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The first challenge of writing is securing a zone of one's own.

Poets' Archives

by Joel Lewis
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As libraries become increasingly interested in acquiring poets' papers, writers who wish to sell their archives should take certain steps.

Making the Stony Stony

by David Long
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In this exploration of the creative process, the author, a fiction writer, reveals that the books that have been indispensable to his life as an artist are distinguished by strangeness.

News and Trends

NEA Looks Forward to 1998

by Michael Dumiak
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The NEA survives the House's push to abolish all funding; NEA chairman Jane Alexander steps down.

Poetry Turns 85

by Patricia J. Chui
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Monthly magazine "Poetry" celebrates its 85th anniversary.

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