July 16, 2016
from the current issue (36.2)
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When banality is pushed beyond the frontier of the digestible and flows like lava on across the tundra of the unbearable, it may ultimately reach the cliff of absurdity and pour stunningly over into the crevasse of the paradoxically marvelous. This feat was achieved, arguably, by John Koethe in his poem “Covers Band in a Small Bar” which appeared in The New Yorker, a weekly ...
July 08, 2016
This is the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. Rebecca Meacham responded to my post on 22 revision prompts, and I asked her if I could share her note-carding prompt.
As always, if you’re interested in contributing to this series, email me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
Rebecca Meacham’s flash fiction collection, Morbid Curiosities, won the 2013 New Delta Review chapbook ...
July 01, 2016
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. Earlier posts can be found here and here and here.
What prompts do you use to teach revision? I'm a little over halfway through the revision workshop I'm teaching this summer, and here are 22 exercises I've given (as options) so far. Some are diagnostic. Some are more traditional prompts that require writing to a directive. *They're not in order of when I ...
June 24, 2016
This is the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. I asked novelist Kate Racculia if she might write something about the online revision course she teaches at the Grub Street Center for Creative Writing in Boston.
As always, if you’re interested in contributing to this series, email me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
Kate Racculia is a writer, researcher, consultant, and ...
