Ten Questions for Brian Broome
“The words start to feel like they’re punching my skull from the inside.” —Brian Broome, author of Punch Me Up to the Gods
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Craft Capsule: Technically It’s a Ravioli
The author of With Teeth celebrates absurdist humor.
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GalleyCrush: Agatha of Little Neon
Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 3, 2021.
Ten Questions for E. C. Osondu
“It was all fun and games until I realized that I was actually writing a book.” —E. C. Osondu, author of Alien Stories
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Craft Capsule: On Copycats and Reply Guys
The author of With Teeth writes about the pleasure of riffing off a good joke.
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GalleyCrush: Radiant Fugitives
Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives, forthcoming from Counterpoint on August 3, 2021.
Ten Questions for Donika Kelly
“I need the volume of more than one trusted reader to hear suggestions over my own investment in being right.” —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations
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Craft Capsule: Self-Deprecating Humor
The author of With Teeth writes that her affinity for self-deprecating humor is inextricable from her queerness.
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GalleyCrush: The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, forthcoming from Harper on July 27, 2021. Editor’s Note: This book’s publication date has been changed to August 24, 2021.
Ten Questions for Kelli Russell Agodon
“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides
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Craft Capsule: What’s So Funny?
The author of With Teeth examines how a single joke can be successfully repackaged and retold over time.
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GalleyCrush: The Woman From Uruguay
Pedro Mairal’s The Woman From Uruguay, translated by Jennifer Croft, forthcoming from Bloomsbury on July 6, 2021.
Ten Questions for Carey Salerno
“I often worried what would come out would be scary, accusing, not close enough to the truth or too close.” —Carey Salerno, author of Tributary
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GalleyCrush: Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch, forthcoming from Doubleday on July 20, 2021.
Literary MagNet: Alex McElroy
The fiction writer and essayist on five journals that published their work and helped shape their debut novel, The Atmospherians.
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The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
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The Legacy of June Jordan
An excerpt from The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller and published in May by Copper Canyon Press.
Andy Weir and the Digital Revolution in Publishing
An excerpt from Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing, published in May by Polity.
Small Press Points: Black Ocean
Established in 2004, the indie press strives to treat poetry as a genre with “frontlist potential” while also publishing fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation from new voices.
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Reviewers & Critics: Jennifer Szalai of the New York Times
The critic on how she began writing reviews, how she and the Times staff pick books to cover, and how social media affects her work.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Three new anthologies including Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis.
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The Power of the PERIPLUS Collective
The PERIPLUS collective aims to democratize writing and publishing by matching emerging BIPOC writers with established authors and publishing professionals for yearlong mentorships.
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Saddle Up and Read
To foster a love of reading among kids in North Carolina, Caitlin Gooch started a program through which children can read books to horses.
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Words Matter: Copyediting as a Process for (or Against) Social Change
Copy editors are adapting to increasing cultural awareness of racial injustice and new approaches to representing identity on the page. How can their work can help or hinder social change?
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Agent Advice: Iwalani Kim of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
The literary agent answers questions about submitting story collections, getting an agent’s attention, and querying two agents at the same agency.
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