I had no idea how to fill the day when I got sober. Writing about it at least gave me something to do with my hands
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 16Part two: A roundup of some of our favorite poetic news items
Sunday, Apr 14, 2013 3:00 PM UTCPart 1: The election
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 3:00 PM UTCI was hoping to become the next indie success story. Instead, I got a tough lesson in vanity
Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 77Three books on how to attain it and what it means
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 9:00 PM UTCRhyming the news, five lines at a time
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 2:59 PM UTCA novel within a novel is a clever touch, but are postmodern writers abusing their readers' patience?
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 14Five line verse about the news
Sunday, Mar 24, 2013 2:59 PM UTCWent to L.A. but something went wrong. Maybe I wasn't meant to be there?
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 12I have no ambition yet I think I should be a writer
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 46Readers rhyme the news
Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 3:00 PM UTCA $50 million donation to creative writing programs is a misplaced effort to foster literary culture
Friday, Mar 8, 2013 8:53 PM UTC 17Literary novelists go into great detail about family, the workplace, even food -- but seem to fear the bedroom
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 25Parsing the news in five line doggerel
Sunday, Mar 3, 2013 3:59 PM UTCI had such a horrible childhood that the anxiety and fear are paralyzing
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 13The news in nonsense verse
Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 3:59 PM UTCIs there a way without clichés to make it leap off the page but avoid side roads that might lead to a cul de sac?
Friday, Feb 22, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 16The New York Times touts the Internet's role in reviving interest in short fiction. Too bad it's not true
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 31Should I let my characters do whatever they want, or force them to embody important ideas?
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 17Silly poems about the week's news
Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 3:59 PM UTCPage 1 of 25 in Writers and Writing
71 names so awful New Zealand had to ban them
"This could be a career ender for Michele Bachmann"
He made me his drug mule
Ted Cruz will never be president
Claire Messud to Publishers Weekly: "What kind of question is that?"
Pictures of people who mock me
Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?
How conspiracists think
Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest
"Star Trek's" Wil Wheaton tells newborn girl why being a nerd "is awesome"
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