taught. Suffice it to say that the requirements now seem different. Wallace was reading and selecting ... about politics, and more so, how we pretend—or script in a very limited and misleading fashion—how we ... talked about how she likes to talk to George Will when they’re on screen together, disagreeing over ...
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a piece, I bought a few. But Read’s book stood out because of its grandiose title. When I saw it ... boundless grace to draft. But Her Read especially taught me how to write it. Remodeling is so much messier ... than new construction! I did not set out to make a visual poem—I would not have been so bold! I set out ...
a play: you know when you read a play that its full mode of existence would be in performance. Still, you ... artists who've been doing it. It's very lively now. Performance poetry is being done all ... others' poems aloud. If some body other than myself did it that would be O.K. I feel that the primary ...
Spring / Summer 1989
transition regularly since it started publishing. It seemed to me that I could write for them as well as ... anyone else, so I sent them things and they accepted them. I was sixteen when I wrote the poem they first ... accepted, seventeen when they published it. I went on for several years as a so-called poet. HALPERN: What ...
about it by using it. Last week, a Great American Novelist famously said that Twitter is “unspeakably ... closely we read his novel Super Sad Love Story —wrote a haunting piece about how his mobile device merged ... his online and offline lives. The best article I’ve read about technology and literature in recent ...
time and I guess even today I don't find it very engaging. I can walk away from it, tum it ... to do with TV. MARSH: I noticed when you were reading last night that some of the poems that I took ... Page 23 from Issue 98 TRIQUARTERLY would be up in my room listening to records or reading. What ...
how exhausting it would be. Being famous became thoroughly unglamorous when I was working on stories ... except “Quality of Life.” I always tell people that when I started writing that story, I thought it would ... Then it became something very different. I’d just say the book is really romantic. It’s also somewhat ...
difficult book we’ve ever read? How many of us would have read every challenging style, every unfamiliar ... been, well, assigned? What do we lose when we only read books with narrators/characters/writers we like? ... disidentification? What does it even mean to “like” or “not like” characters who’ve been chewed up and spat out by ...
want to read about your dog dying. We’ve all got problems.” “So is that how we feel about this poem ... sniffing around the damp, green earth. “I will read this poem aloud first, and then you can read it through ... I finish reading, my devil’s advocate speaks. “I don’t get it. Why would anyone tell her she couldn’t write ...
to describe exactly how it would be throwing everything off kilter, but it seemed like it was. At ... originated there. Sometimes when people ask me about the MFA I have a version of different opinions about it ... how personal and vulnerable it is to share a draft when you know it needs work and you need somebody ...