Great stories are all well and good, but there are some that are so perfectly written that they are actually able to teach more to their readers about the craft…
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The Karaoke Bar at the End of the Mind: On Embarrassment in the Poetry Workshop
by Guest Contributor June 15, 2016During a recent class meeting of my Intermediate Poetry Workshop at the University of North Texas, I asked my students an important question after they had turned in their second…
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For decades, a mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster left three roses and a partial bottle of cognac on the writer’s grave each year on January 19, Poe’s birthday.…
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“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
by Joe Milazzo June 11, 2015It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…
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“A certain shared insanity”: A Conversation With Mike Heppner
by Joe Milazzo May 26, 2015“Short stories are gems. Novels, however,” according to one of my favorite creative writing teachers, “are big bags.” Mike Heppner’s work both affirms and challenges this judgement. For while Mike’s…
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“The gauche-ness of actual being”: A Conversation With Jennifer MacKenzie
by Joe Milazzo April 2, 2015Whither the lyric? A hand-wringing (see below) form perhaps by definition—itself a manifestation of doom—a certain amount of common sense attends to hand-wringing over the lyric, its utilities as well…
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Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards
by Leif Haven November 20, 2014I rejoice in accepting [this beautiful award] for and sharing it with all the writers who were excluded from literature for so long — my fellow authors of fantasy and science…
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This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High Frontier, and Pax Porfiriana. It…
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Letter to You: The Untold Embarrassing Story of How I Made a One-Player Card Game and Then Got Divorced
by Guest Contributor November 3, 2014(All photos credit Meagen Crawford. All artwork credit Lauren Rogers.) I divorced young, after marrying even younger, at twenty-five. That’s something I don’t often reveal, but unflinching honesty has been…
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NOTES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH DOTTIE LASKY THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE ABOUT HER BOOK THUNDERBIRD
by Dot Devota October 29, 2014When I was younger, under 7 years of age, I didn’t understand what the big deal was about death. When you died, you wouldn’t know you were dead, so you…
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“If I choose to stare the world happens to my eyes.” A Conversation With John Trefry
by Joe Milazzo October 21, 2014I owe what I know—and that appeals to me as only a little, still—of John Trefry’s novel Plats (Inside the Castle, 2014) courtesy of Michel Butor. Not that either John…
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On Longform Narrative Poetry, and the Question of the Modern Epic
by Kyle Muntz October 19, 2014Introduction Kyle Muntz: Hi everyone! So, for Entropy’s first monthly conversation, I’m interested in the idea of book-length narrative poetry—particularly the question of why it seems to have become so unpopular.…
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Shit. I don’t want to be the one to bring this up, but I have to. We all cheat in some way—whether it’s finding inspiration from the indexes of poetry…
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Two-headed feelings each have their own brains, which is the characteristic that differentiates them from two-faced feelings. The condition of two-headedness in feelings is most often caused by a developmental…