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"I think ritualizing the act of writing is extremely dangerous to being a writer, because it's really easy to make the ritual the art, and you don't even notice it." Shane McCrae talks with fellow poet Dora Malech about tradition, accesibility, and process for Iowa City's Little Village magazine. McCrae's poetry collection The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015) is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico reads "Sonnet for Your Nerves" for the Buttered Toast Reading Series in El Paso, Texas. Her debut collection, The Verging Cities (Center for Literacy Publishing, 2015), explores the relationship between the border cities of El Paso and Juarez. Scenters-Zapico is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Rickey Laurentiis reads "Black Iris" from his poetry collection, Boy With Thorn (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Prize. Laurentiis is one of the debut poets in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"One of the wonderful things about poetry is that your body is the vehicle for its creation or expression." Jonathan Fink discusses his debut poetry collection, The Crossing (Dzanc Books, 2015), and touches on building a manuscript, the merits of poetic form, and the role of the poet in the twenty-first century. Fink is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"Art was my dearest friend. To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom." Molly Crabapple's new memoir, Drawing Blood (Harper, 2015), includes her illustrations and details her life as an artist, journalist, and activist.
"I believe in following your dreams—being incredibly passionate, and being ruthlessly practical about what it takes to get there." Molly Crabapple, whose memoir Drawing Blood (Harper, 2015) features her illustrations, talks about how to succeed as an artist and a creative entrepreneur.
"Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" A new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
"Character is shy yet codependent, searching for love in all the wrong men." Poet and actress Amber Tamblyn reads "Untitled Actress" from her collection Dark Sparkler (Harper Perennial, 2015) for Button Poetry.
"After conquering / frontiers, the mind comes back to rest, / stretching out over the white sand." At a 92Y event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa reads "Islands" from his poetry collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), and the Wire actor Wendell Pierce reads from his memoir, The Wind in the Reeds (Riverhead Books, 2015), in which he explores art's ability to redeem his native New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
"The mind must / set itself up / wherever it goes..." So begins the poem "New Rooms" by Kay Ryan from her collection, Erratic Facts (Grove Press, 2015). Ryan is a former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant.
