Getting Poetry Off the Page: The Third Dodge Poetry Festival
"An unlikely little kingdom where poetry rules over all," the PBS-featured annual marathon inspires hope for the future of poetry in America.
Department: Feature
Amy Tan: An Interview
The workaholic turned best-selling author discusses her crossover from business writing to fiction writing.
In Search of the Aly Baba Café
Through the crowds of Cairo, across the desert, and up the Nile, the author maintained his hope of finding the elusive café—and its esteemed patron, Nobel Prize–winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz.
Low-Residency MFA Programs
A nontraditional way to earn a graduate writing degree.
Robert Dana: An Interview
Embodying experience—the poet and teacher shares his views on the role of language, form, and culture, and what poems are made of.
The Reaching Readers Resources List
A directory of books and organizations that can help you focus on your audience and enhance both your creative and business sense.
Children's Literature & Cultural Censorship
Is the desire for happy endings leading American publishers to deprive children of full literary lives?
The Quarterly Review of Literature at Fifty
For half a century, Theodore and Renee Weiss have presided over the evolution of one of the country's most influential journals.
Inventing Memories: An Interview with Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, the Chilean author whose exile in California transformed her from journalist to novelist, reveals her writing secrets.
Driving Through Kentucky
How a novelist risked his life and his career venturing off the beaten path.
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