And she exploded: “Oh yes, yes, we were well off the same in Germany, we were, and you know what? One night they slaughter us. We were fine but one…

MyOTHER TONGUE by Rosa Alcalá (Futurepoem, 2017) A Mother’s Day poem. Come on, confess: most of us have done it at least once. Right? I did it a long time…

I gave four prompts to collaborating poet Karineh Mahdessian. She conducted three minutes of “fevered writing” with each prompt. Here are the results. These words comprise the lexicon I’ll use to…

VI KHI NAO: On page 20, you wrote, “K says being in love is radical” – what do you think K means by this? LIZ BOWEN: This was taken from…

[Image Credit: “Small Self Portrait, Lauren Aristizabal] Textual Analysis The text was written simultaneously with the life for which it stands as an account to be assessed for the potential…

Photo Credit: Margaret Killljoy The deer were delivered, freshly killed, to our driveway. They were often the gifts of people who couldn’t endorse us publicly—maybe they had a relative working on…

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In the spirit of my new collection The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press, 2017), I’m sharing material from my “Writing the Forbidden” class, of which I teach…

DREAMLIVES OF DEBRIS by Lance Olsen (Dzanc, 2017).   Lance Olsen radically reshapes the myth of the Minotaur in his brilliantly conceived novel Dreamlives of Debris (Dzanc Books, 2017). Reworking the myth,…

Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…

Goodness, Duck Tattoo, where are you going? Duck Tattoo couldn’t answer because Duck Tattoo couldn’t talk, but Duck Tattoo clearly seemed to need something. It left its home in the…

Excerpted from a memoir. It was a Saturday morning. My son was in Venezuela on a short vacation with my husband, and I wanted  to hear my younger son’s voice…

Decoherence, Nate Pritts (42 Miles Press, Indiana University South Bend), 2017, 88 pages   The first poem, “A Responding Noise,” in Nate Pritts’ eighth collection, Decoherence (42 Miles Press), launches…

Working wasn’t an option, it was required by the System. All able-bodied inmates were assigned jobs. I was young, in decent health, and my medical status was 1AP, a designation…