May 15, 2017
Yesterday was the second anniversary of the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright. I've been working for the past eighteen months to assemble a portfolio of work on Wright, one that would include a range of voices (including Franz's own) writing about and to and through his life and poems. That memorial will be printed in the Summer 2017 issue of Pleiades (which you can pre-order here), but this week ...
May 09, 2017
A new archive popped up with a few essays from this blog and elsewhere by writers of color on craft. Here it is: https://www.de-canon.com/blog/2017/5/5/writers-of-color-discussing-craft-an-invisible-archive
The ones from the blog are under the Pedagogy section.
I wrote about the issue of "pure craft" and why writers of color address race in their craft essays in this ...
April 19, 2017
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. The first 22 revision prompts are here. Another 7 are here. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
Research something fact-based or theory-based or historical, etc., and add at least 10 "facts" (or statements of information) from your research that seem relevant to the thematic content ...
April 12, 2017
This is a guest post from poet Jacques Rancourt. If you’re interested in contributing a guest post, please email me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc]. –Matthew Salesses, Website Editor
Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Novena, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize (Pleiades Press, February 2017). He has held poetry fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Cité Internationale des ...
