The Writing Program is hosting a couple of keen events this week, so don’t miss out. Tonight, Laura Cronk will be moderating a discussion with Catherine Bowman. They will be talking about Catherine’s new book, […]
Volume 3 is coming… And here is your staff:
Editor-in-Chief: Zoë Miller Managing Editor: Liz Axelrod Fiction Editor: Mario A. Zambrano Poetry Editor: Marisa Frasca Non-Fiction Editor: Luke Sirinides Interview Editor: Patrick Hipp Editors-at-Large: Anna Utevsky & Kathryn Waldron Faculty Advisor: Rene Steinke And […]
Foster Children, DJs, and Hermaphroditic Dogs
Yesterday was Wednesday, so I of course read the NYT Dining section. I generally read it online, but since I was Long Island-bound, I got myself a copy for the train ride. Eventually I found […]
Worried, or Just Plain Lazy?
The blog has been quiet as of late. The print journal has been shipped back and forth, from New York, to California, to Canada, then back around again. The next time I see it, it […]
Some People Came for the Wine
The Adriana Trigianni and David Baldacci event, Wine and Words, at the Virginia Festival of the Book last week, was held at a Charlottesville wine bar called Enoteca. It’s a knock off of the wonderful […]
Fateful Acts
On February 26, 2009, Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times of Philipp Meyer: “American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and […]
What are you doing here in the first place?
I climbed up the creaking stairs, 10 minutes late, as Jeffrey Renard Allen read from his story “The Green Apocalypse” from his collection Holding Pattern. I was immediately reminded of how much I enjoy the […]
Virginia Festival Of The Book
This week in Charlottesville is the 15th annual Virginia Festival of The Book—five days of literary events to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. This year 12th Street will be in attendance, so look […]
Getting Away
There is something to be said for a change of environment. For the past couple of weeks my writing has been stuck, stagnant. The answer was to get away. I am a creature of habit. […]
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Justin Taylor Reads
[wpvideo dhVLGi7W] Justin Taylor reading “I See Tiny Mouths” by Anthony McCann from the Agriculture Reader.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!
Jono Tosch Reads
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Fisherman Poets
“They might wax about the versatility of a deck bucket or of romance in rubber boots, but they also describe a livelihood that can kill those who pursue it.” —From an article in the New […]
Banging Away At It
For 21 months I’ve been working on the same piece and it’s driving me crazy. Most every day I turn on my computer, open the same Word document, and start the process all over again. […]
Katharine Coles
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A One Hundred Poem Blog
I can’t stop checking out this blog … daily! A poem is posted each and every day, for the first 100 days, President Barack Obama is in office.On this blog you can read poems by: […]
Gary Clark
[wpvideo 4j6Zt5eD] Gary Clark reading “An Appearance in New Hampshire” from Rivendell Vol. 1 No. 2
Ish Klein Reads "The Phases"
[wpvideo UwPpsyd2] Ish Klein reads “The Phases,” from her new book UNION! to Bernadette.
Mathias Svalina Reads Julie Doxsee
[wpvideo vLJo3OqF] Mathias Svalina reading from Julie Doxsee’s book Undersleep