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Isaac Kirkman – The Martyr From Nowhere
2014 is the year of the nobodies. Isaac Kirkman is a founding member of the Low Writers collective, a member of The Last Ancients, and The Southern Collective Experience, and an affiliate writer for...
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The 21st century is the best time to follow your passion
Don’t Just Follow Your Passion: A Talk for Generation Y w/ Eunice Hii @ TEDxTerryTalks 2012
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same...
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Omegle & Creative Writing
Looking to experiment with your writing a little? Here’s a funky way to obtain some good ideas through an unusual form of free writing. I love writing, and I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it....
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Craig ‘Ultraviolence’ Cady & New Sincerity
Craig ‘Ultraviolence’ Cady tears skin and ripples uncomfortably in your belly as you observe him scrape an avalanche out of his body to offer into yours through multimedia performances incorporating...
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What New Power looks like
“We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of “new power”...
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“Text messaging, parasexual literature, and psychiatry in drag.”
I personally don’t know where relationships come from, but I suspect they are conceived in the gaps between our boundaries. Beau Rice’s Tex (Penny-Ante Editions, 2014) is an exploration of such borders...
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Poets speak out for refugees: ‘No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth...
by Marta Bausells and Maeve Shearlaw “No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border / when you see the whole city / running as well.” This evocative stanza from...
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At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn’t Done Yet
by Richard Gonzales Lawrence Ferlinghetti lives in a modest second-story walk-up in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Hanging on his walls are his doctorate from the Sorbonne, an unframed Paul...
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NO : a guided meditation
Sarah Xerta of the Nostrovia! Poetry chapbook contest has shared a powerful guided meditation which you can read for free. Check this out!!! I look up the etymology of the word No and see it has two...
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A Year of Reading the World
Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge- to read one book from every country in the world in one year. Ann Morgan found her book shelves to contain a massive cultural gap. Her shelves were composed...
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Three Poems – Patricia Smith
I recently read Patricia Smith‘s Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection. I had read a handful of her poems prior to this / watched some of her performances on YouTube, but...
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A Dirty Kid Love Story
by Lilli Peterson & Chandler West “Have you ever wanted to abandon everything and live free, without worrying about rent, or bills, or the pressures of a job? These people did it, and they fell in...
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Hollie McNish Speaks to the Guardian About Motherhood Poetry
by Emma Cook Poet Hollie McNish felt she wasn’t ready to be a mother when she got pregnant at 26, six years ago. She is also a poet who has channeled her feelings about parenthood into verse”...
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“Text messaging, parasexual literature, and psychiatry in drag.”
I personally don’t know where relationships come from, but I suspect they are conceived in the gaps between our boundaries. Beau Rice’s Tex (Penny-Ante Editions, 2014) is an exploration of such borders...
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Online Literary Magazines and their (Intense) Diversity Problem
by Gabino Iglesias “I’ve never felt the need to begin an essay with a clarifying note, but there’s a first time for everything. I’ve been writing reviews for Electric Literature since 2014, always...
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The Lengua That Won’t Be Tamed
by Gabino Iglesias For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English is the reigning tongue but who...
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[N!P Interviews Marshall Harris for FALD #012]
In his submission to F.A.L.D. #012, Marshall Harris wowed N!P with the depth of his passion—for not only poetry, but for athletics, Boise itself, and its people. Whether talking about Idaho’s many...
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Christopher Morgan reads “Georgia”
Originally posted on Dirty Chai: In April of this year, Sam, C.M. and I spent a few days in Los Angeles during the AWP conference. While we were in L.A., we had the opportunity grab lunch and spend a...
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Where Poetry Meets LGBTQ Youth Homelessness
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza interviews Christopher Soto “I FIRST MET Loma (a.k.a. Christopher Soto) in the midst of a poetry tour consisting entirely of trans writers traveling and reading their work...
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