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Review of I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes

Review of I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes

By Madeleine Bazil Fernandes, Megan,  I Do Everything I’m Told. Tin House, June 2023. $16.95 A poem is a gesture—or perhaps a lurching gasp—toward a felt reality, even an infinitesimal, momentary one. And a sonnet is, most often, a love poem. “Eros is a verb”: so says...

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Matt Weinkam on Revising Antonya Nelson’s Revision Course

Matt Weinkam on Revising Antonya Nelson’s Revision Course

This is the latest in a series of posts on revision. It’s actually a rethinking of Antonya Nelson's great post about teaching creative writing by walking her students through how she writes a story (link is in the essay below). Matt Weinkam revises Nelson's revision...

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