Genre Writing: It's Entertaining, But is it Art?
Are genre writers "hacks" or simply commercially savvy? The battle rages over the literary merits of genre fiction.
Department: Feature
The Micropress: An Underground Economy of Poetry
Few are listed in small press directories or put out calls for submissions, but these magazines are read by some of the most serious readers of poetry in the country.
Is the Air Political Today? Radical Writers in the U.S.
Jan Clausen responds to recent accusations of political apathy among U.S. writers.
Fat With Rejection
A review of rejection letters, from the acrimonious to the zealous.
An Interview With Linda Gregg
Poet and teacher Linda Gregg discusses imagery, travel, marriage, and her newest book, The Sacraments of Desire (Graywolf Press, 1991).
William Joyce, Street Poet
With Walt Whitman and Henry Miller as his inspiration, a Washington, D.C., poet discovers that he can "sell poetry to anybody, at any time, anywhere."
The Grolier Bookshop
A visit to the landmark "poetry only" bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selling Out
"The writing felt as joyless as a bad marriage," says a fiction writer after completing a commercial nonfiction book.
Hungry Mind Review
A Minnesota-based publication gives worthy books the attention they deserve and promotes Midwestern writers as well.
Loyalty Oaths: To Sign or Not To Sign
"Bureaucratic garbage" and "dismissable formality" or a real affront to personal and professional integrity? Confronted with signing for university teaching positions, two writers reflect on their different choices and prove there are no empty words.
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