Today we’re accustomed to recalling the nineteenth-century Luddites with a smirk of embarrassment. We trot out the name of their movement to poke fun at…
A guest post from Tony Grooms

February 2023

One of my favorite Michael Walls poems has a new title. Once called “Scars,” it’s been retitled “Naked” in his second volume of poems, Climbing an…
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A couple weeks ago, scholars on Twitter lamented the long timelines of academic publishing. Occasioned by the 2023 publication of a monograph with a…
A Guest Post by Tony Grooms

January 2023

Contrapuntal Poems and Silence
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I've never been one for New Year's resolutions. Why wait for an appointed time to make a necessary change? But wedged between year-in-review lists and…
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A Guest Post by Fiction Writer Tony Grooms

December 2022

I will make a confession that wouldn’t surprise anyone who knows me: I’m an extremely competitive person. Over the years, I’ve learned how toxic being…
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Writing Contrapuntal Poems II
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Described by Two Dollar Radio as “a brand new international literary magazine” and “an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new…
When I began this column in January, my goal was to share with you every month for a year what I know — and what I’m still learning — about writing…