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[REMINDER: John Lewis Writing Grants now OPEN (deadline: Oct. 1, 2022)] For a long time, I thought I was terrible at writing dialogue. I’m not terrible at talking, or listening (usually), but conveying on a page how people speak, with their subtexts, their physical quirks (how…

Jessica Handler

Jul 8

Revising Poems for Syncopation

Jun 24

Jul 22

I’ve spent the last two weeks doing almost nothing but reading novels, and I’ve noticed something about well-written literary fiction. It’s the characters who bring me back to the page every time, more than gorgeous sentences, and maybe more than plot, too. I’m eager to return to…

Jessica Handler

Jun 3

Expansion and Poetry

May 20

I recently invited my friend Pete to speak to my undergraduates about his new book and his writing practice. He told them, among other things, that he…

Jessica Handler

May 6

Let People See: A Poetry Playlist I would like to suggest that poetry can function as a playlist to inspire, inform, and ultimately sustain any mode of…

Christopher Martin

Apr 29

Contraction & Expansion in Poetry

Apr 22

We are writers because we are readers. Before we could read on our own, someone likely read to us, and we began the imaginative work of putting words…

Jessica Handler

Apr 1

Ilya Kaminsky in the Moment

Mar 25

Christopher Martin

Mar 18

Welcome back to GW’s Align Your Time with Your Values: Using Business Management Tools to Achieve Your Creative Goals. This is our final post in this…

Danielle Hanson

Mar 11

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