Listen and Learn: Poetry Collection as Concept Album
The author of Scream / Queen (Acre Books, 2025) encourages poets to consider world-building in their collections like compiling a concept album.
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Listen and Learn: First Tracks and First Impressions
The author of Scream / Queen (Acre Books, 2025) encourages writers to consider how music albums are introduced as they craft the beginning of poetry collections.
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Conveying Music and Dance in Fiction: Getting It on the Page
The author of Duet for One (Regal House Publishing, May 2025) recommends writers research vocabularies specific to their characters’ lives to ensure the novel’s world feels believable.
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Conveying Music and Dance in Fiction: Forgetting the Outline
The author of Duet for One (Regal House Publishing, May 2025) recommends writers discover their structure as they write.
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The Written Image: Ghost(ed) Notes
Christine Sun Kim’s art practice uniquely melds different mediums with ASL to address her experience as a Deaf individual in a hearing-centric world, prompting viewers to reflect on accessibility and ableist exclusion.
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Ten Questions for Mike Fu
“Streamline. Outline. Find your center of gravity.” —Mike Fu, author of Masquerade
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What Songwriters Can Teach Us About Storytelling
The author of I’ll Give You a Reason considers what short fiction writers can learn from popular songs.
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What Herbie Hancock Taught Me About Formal Poetry
The author of Midwhistle contemplates the common ground between jazz music and poetry.
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Ten Questions for Zachary Pace
“In the intimacy of the book, I feel very vulnerable.” —Zachary Pace, author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who’ve Made Me Who I Am
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Storytelling in Poetry
The author of What Can I Tell You?: Selected Poems examines poetic approaches to narrative.
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