Thought, Speech: Dialogue Without Quotation Marks
The author of Discipline (Random House, 2026) reflects on the value of blending interior and exterior language with less punctuation.
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Overheard: Writing Third Person Through First Person
The author of Discipline (Random House, 2026) reflects on fusing points of view in fiction.
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Always Beginning, Always Continuing: On Non-Expertise
The author of Unstuck: A Writer’s Guide (Tin House, April 2026) encourages writers to embrace being an amateur in all corners of their lives.
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You Are Your Most Important Reader: On Trust, Listening, and Pleasure in Writing
The author of Unstuck: A Writer’s Guide (Tin House, April 2026) encourages writers to write without an outside reader in mind.
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How to Write Ethically About Those You Love, and Don’t Love Anymore
The author of Pulse (Omnidawn, 2026) offers insight on how to approach writing sensitively about one’s most intimate relationships.
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Ethical Rage: How Metaphor Transforms Anger Into a Higher Truth
The author of Pulse (Omnidawn, 2026) considers how metaphor can help metabolize anger.
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Lie Well: How to Fib Ethically in Your Poems
The author of Pulse (Omnidawn, 2026) considers how one can morally bend the truth in poetry.
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On Multimodality, Form, and Reverent Innovation
The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) considers the power of leveraging different media in poetry.
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Capturing Sacred, Secular Imagery
The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) reflects on offering reverence to ordinary objects in poetry.
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Crafting the Artifact of Voice
The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) considers how memory can be mined for particular phrases and pronunciations to guide poetry.
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