Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Knox Writers’ House: A Conversation with Emily Oliver
If you haven’t visited the Knox Writers’ House—a digital archive of poets and writers reading their poems and prose, as well as the writings of others, recording in the towns where they reside—you’re in for quite a few hours of…
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“The Centre Cannot Hold”: The (Rise of?) Apocalyptic Writings
As I child, I was fascinated with the biblical concept of The Rapture. As an adult, I don’t know who or what to blame—the hurricanes? The wars? All the disaster movies? But like many writers, I suspect, I may be…
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Up Close, and at Some Distance: Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
It’s hard to imagine learning to write without having read Elizabeth Bishop’s poems. At nineteen years old, I was a bandana-wearing hippie and a burgeoning feminist when my professor at Oberlin College pulled Bishop’s Complete Poems off her shelf and…
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30/30 Poetry Projects: A New Era of Poetry Production?
There are times when I think I may be the slowest writer I know. When another writer-friend says to me, “Oh, I wrote a poem this morning,” I’ll think to myself: a whole poem? In one sitting? How does that…
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