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Mon Apr 11 2011 Dodo Bird or Bedbug? The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook by Phillip Lopate This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly Online, was originally presented at "Status Update: The Read more...	Mon Mar 28 2011 Paying to Publish by Karen Zemanick In the past several months, two members of my writing group have decided to self-publish their work Read more...	Mon Feb 7 2011 Books Beside Themselves (Nonfiction and the Double Life of Facts) by Donald Morrill This is the last in a series of four nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from a Read more...
Mon Jan 31 2011 Notes on Eternity by S.L. Wisenberg This is the third in a series of four nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from Read more...	Mon Jan 24 2011 Now, Where Was I? : On Maggie Nelson’s Bluets by Thomas Larson This is the second in a series of four nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from Read more...	Mon Jan 17 2011 Creating Subtext in Personal Narrative by Richard Terrill This is the first in a series of four nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from Read more...
Mon Nov 1 2010 Witness Report by Francine J. Sanders Photo used with permission of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN Editor's note: Jon Burge's Read more...	Fri Oct 1 2010 Excerpt from "Tourist in Hell" by Eleanor Wilner Site Visit By then doctors and poets Would Read more...	Mon Aug 2 2010 Prose in Public by Dana Norris It is inherently awkward to stand in front of a group of people and ask them to listen to you. Read more...

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The Moving Face (for Roger Ebert)

The first time I ever really thought about Roger Ebert it was because I knew he was warm, dry, and celebrating and I was cold, wet and furious. It was January 2005 in Chicago, and unsurprisingly it was snowing on me and members of Not Dead Yet as we staged a protest outside the Union League Club, surrounded by a row of news trucks.
On the Early English Essay: An Experimental Array

"Essay" enters into English untamed.
The Facts of the Matter

Here is how it happened: The door to the suite was open that night when I walked past and saw her splayed across a couch, one foot on the floor, one leg hooked over an arm rest.
Excerpt from Office Girl

On that Monday at the end of January, Jack Blevins, a questionable young man of twenty-five, rides his blue bicycle beneath the flurry, with tape recorder in hand.

Interviews

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

Reviews

The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

At the heart of this collection, Barnett’s second, is an engagement with Kant’s idea of the sublime, namely that the self experiences both terror and dread in the face of the infinite—whether death or, as the Romantics understood it, the implacable force of Nature.
Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, by Heléne Aylon

The memoir, like the artist herself, swerves between cutting-edge installation art, the ancient passages of the Bible, and centuries-old Jewish law and tradition.
The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990 edited by Harold B. Segel

This fascinating book, edited by Prof. Harold B. Segel of Columbia University, presents a rich sampling of writings by people imprisoned in the jails of the former Eastern European Soviet colonies...
Love: An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg

In 2009 the poet Craig Arnold disappeared on the remote Japanese island Kuchinoerabujima, while hiking near a volcano. Though Japanese authorities searched for days, Arnold was never found. Rebecca Lindenberg, his partner of six years, has now written Love: An Index, a meditation on their love and her loss of him.

Blog Posts

How Poems Move #12

Apr 25, 2013
How Poems Move #11

Apr 23, 2013
How Poems Move #10

Apr 18, 2013
How Poems Move #9

Apr 17, 2013