writing process

The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation considers the link between the author’s emotional state while writing and the reader’s engagement.

The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation offers a psychoanalytic approach to imagining the reader.

The author of Took House explores the importance of “strangeness” in poetry and offers a method for capturing this quality by combining two different draft poems.

The author of Took House explores a kinder approach to revision, in which language cut during one editorial process may be saved as material for a new writing project.

“I think it was essential that I turn further inward, that I trust the ‘quieter’ poems.” —Zeina Hashem Beck, author of O

The author of [WHITE] explores the benefits of writing to a specific audience and the risks of trying to meet the market’s imagined demands. 

The author of [WHITE] considers how writers might take inspiration from visual artists in their approach to revision, pushing beyond surface editing to “see” their work afresh.

The author of [WHITE] explores how writing outside one’s primary genre can lead to literary breakthroughs.

The author of [WHITE] shares how experimenting with found texts can energize the poetic process and expand a poet’s lyric repertoire.