TEWSK: The Serial
Things Every Writer Should Know: The Serial Alright, close your eyes and reminisce on your favorite childhood stories. Go ahead, this can totally wait. Okay, now that you are all nostalgic for your favorite...
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Featured Poem 7/8 – “Portrait of My Parents Making Love as a Stomach Virus”
Portrait of My Parents Making Love as a Stomach Virus by Lauren Schmidt For two days, my father’s eyes were socked in fog. His body’s heat rose on a high flame. His face was...
What Else You Should Be Reading: The Rumpus
Welcome to the new Sunday exclusive of “What Else You Should Be Reading”. The internet is wide and hard to navigate, but I’ve found some treasures I’d like to share with you in a...
Featured Poem 7/1 – “The Children”
The Children by Eugénio de Andrade translated by Atsuro Riley Children grow in secret. They hide themselves in the depths and darker reaches of the house to become wild cats, white birches. One...
Have You Thought About This? : Specificity
In a continuation on last week’s post about reality, I want to talk about specificity. Have you thought about this? The connection between specific images and reality? So far, it’s the most fool-proof way...
10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- Final Impressions
(I don’t have much to say today, so I’m leaving it up to you lot!) Today was meant to be about the language used in The Great Gatsby but I couldn’t even start to...
Featured Poem 6/24 – “Filicudi”
Filicudi by Eliza Griswold You have a beautiful mouth, Luigi, the man-boy says. The rubber raft has floated far from shore. The choice is this: medusa sea, a boil of jellied lashes, or...
Have You Thought About This? : Reality
You may have had that moment. You hand a piece over to a friend or a reviewer and they come back to you saying, “I don’t believe that character would ever do that” or...
Featured Poem 6/17 – “Tourists”
Tourists by Yehuda Amichai Visits of condolence is all we get from them. They squat at the Holocaust Memorial, They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall And they laugh behind heavy curtains...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: After The End
Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...
