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A Controlled Crash – Puerto talks with fiction contest judge Michael Martone

Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He is the author of more than a dozen books. Here he takes a minute out of … Continue reading

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You Snooze, You Lose. But Shmooze, Who Knows? Advice For Networking at AWP Boston

Linda K. Wertheimer, a journalist in the Boston area, provides some terrific insight here for how to make the most of your trip to the upcoming AWP annual writer’s conference in Boston this year. Follow the link below for tips … Continue reading

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Sarah Lariviere: “Five Poems from Salt Clock”

The octopus is on television. The lights flash. She is electrocuted. I was going to sew in my life a flavor, on the curtains, of telephones Sunrise The ghost crab baby wears green earrings when she comes out of the … Continue reading

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Benjamin Robinson: PALLET

PALLET by Benjamin Robinson   “It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.” Epicurus (Greek philosopher, 341 BC – … Continue reading

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Lindsay Tigue: The Trajectory of Oranges

Lindsay Tigue attends the MFA program in Creative Writing and the Environment at Iowa State University. Formerly, she worked for the Great Books Foundation and managed the quarterly magazine, the Common Review. She is currently the nonfiction editor of Flyway: … Continue reading

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Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs: Returning

Dr. G, as her students call her, is a poet, mother of Enrico and Eleuterio, married to physics teacher and musician Eric Muhs, and an Associate professor at Seattle University.  She has traveled the world in search of words and … Continue reading

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Bobby Nicolescu: Beadmaking

Bobby Nicolescu writes poetry, prose, and drama in English and Romanian, and her work has appeared in several small U.S. journals. Beadmaking When in our molten silence gasping at air we swallow it unchewed and cloy together on the verge … Continue reading

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Post-MFA Interview with Mike Meginnis

1. What have you been up to since you finished your MFA? My wife and fellow NMSU MFA alum Tracy Rae Bowling got a job in Iowa City writing tests. I followed her, tried one job, that one didn’t work … Continue reading

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Interview: Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2011)and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2012, McCrae’s collection Mule was selected as a finalist for … Continue reading

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A Quick Reminder of the Cultural Significance of Writers

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