The Art of Biography: Falling In and Out of Love
An author and Guggenheim fellow details her journey in writing a biography of radical poet Lola Ridge.
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Dangerous Writing: Go to Your Battlefield
“By forcing the writer to look at an event that changed her life, she has to come to terms with something that is intimate.” A prolific author and teacher explores the process of facing the deepest, heaviest, and saddest parts of ourselves in order to write our innermost truths.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Experiment with myth, reinvent your relationships, and give love a bad name—three prompts to ignite the creative process.
Project Empathy: Facing Difficult Material
An accomplished novelist and memoirist offers advice on how to write creative nonfiction with empathy and respect.
Futuristic Writing Desk: A Special Form of History
Recounting a harrowing trek up Texas’s Enchanted Rock with his wife, a writer details the particularly difficult task of placing yourself in time, and then learning to let time go.
How Do You Translate a Gunshot? Charlie Hebdo, Francophone Culture, and the Translation Conundrum
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a French scholar and literary translator discusses the need for translators to be well versed in intersectional knowledge of culture and history.
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Selected Poems: Looking Back on a Lifetime of Writing
A former United States poet laureate reflects on his career, and how his experiences of love, partnership, and aging helped shape the curatorial process for his newest collection.
Mermaids and Matryoshkas: The Secret Life of a Poetic Sequence
A poet and author talks with five published and noteworthy poets about craft and creative process, and what they do when the going gets tough.
The Time Is Now
Invent new words, change your perceptions, or get mistaken for strangers--three exercises to flex your creative muscles.
Catapult Launches More Than Books
Catapult, a new literary venture that launched in September, is working to provide resources for writers at every stage of their career—from workshops to self-publishing platforms to traditionally published books—in an effort to create an online community that “conceptually mirrors the ecosystem in which writers and creatives exist right now.”
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