Plosive Cintia Santana **note: please click the jpg to enlarge Cintia Santana is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses, at Stanford University. Learn more at...
Recommendations from 2019 by the editorial staff of Pleiades - Jenny Molberg, Co-Editor: Though it has gotten much deserved recognition, the book that most stunned me, one that I kept returning to again and again this year, was Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky. I...
Continued from https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-even-more-revision-prompts/, here are some final revision prompts for 2019. Add them to the prompts here: https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ – I’m teaching revision...
Three-Minute Book Review: Katie Burgess on The Quiet Part Loud by Tyler Barton (Split Lip Press, 2018) - If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? I’m pretty sure this book would grow ginger. Like ginger roots, these stories all have their own weird,...
Three-Minute Book Review: Katie Burgess on Failures by Matt Tompkins (Monday Night Press, 2019). - If this book were a GIF, which would it be? It would be that one where the guy is pushing a trashcan but then trips and falls all the way inside the trashcan;...
More revision prompts to add to https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ - I'm teaching revision again, this time for a senior thesis workshop, in which students are workshopping novels, plays, TV and webisode scripts, whatever...
Three-Minute Book Review: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke on Passing through Humansville, by Karen Craigo (Sundress Publications, 2018). - 1) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? Every plant that grows from this book would turn into something else when...
Below is another exercise I gave my students in Experimental Fiction. -- Paired with reading "Pee on Water," by Rachel Glaser A story that takes as its subject the history of the universe leading up to humankind’s “pee on water” might evoke Genesis for some people....
From time to time, I have been asked to give craft book recommendations, especially by and/or for writers of color. Having read ~50 craft books in researching my own book, here are ten volumes that I have found useful in thinking about craft, all written by non-white...