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How a Book Happens with kathryn l pringle by Kristi Carter
Air Schooner Now on Stitcher
Prairie Schooner’s very own literary podcast, Air Schooner, is now available on Stitcher! Listeners can download new episodes through Stitcher’s online and mobile app to listen to anywhere, and review and rate the latest episodes right on the app. Past guests include Sherman Alexie, Barry Lopez, and Nikola Madzirov reading from their work, plus discussions …
FUSION 8 – Bones, with Poems and Art From Singapore
Our bones are not private; they are not secrets. We seem happy to expose them. FUSION 8 – Bones is now online, with poetry, art, and essays from Singapore and the Prairie Schooner archives. The latest issue includes work by Michael Bullock, Malcolm Glass, Greg Kuzma, Rafaat Haji Hamzah, and Edwin Thumboo, plus art by …

A 6-Disc Set of “Warm-Up” Songs for Writers by Natalie Diaz

How A Book Happens with Allison Seay by Kristi Carter
Ladan Osman Wins 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize For African Poets
The African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner are proud to announce Ladan Osman as the winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets! Osman will receive a $1,000 cash prize and her collection, The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal. …

Selecting the Essential Story: A Literary Conversation with Brad Watson

Briefly Noted – February 2014
Reflections on “A War Portfolio”
First, I want to thank Brian Turner and all the staff who worked on A War Portfolio to make it a part of the Winter 2013 issue of Prairie Schooner. I’d also like to thank the writers and poets whose work is featured in the volume. I hope my words seem humble, because I feel …