Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 22:14
As part of Air Schooner #6, host Stacey Waite interviewed poet Jan Beatty. Listen to the uncut version of Beatty's musings on being a rock and roll poet, teaching with music, and keeping "the grit" alive.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 09:54
Claire Harlan-Orsi interviews the PS Spring 2012 Contributor
Stephen Ajay has published two books of poetry: ABRACADABRA and The Whales Are Burning from New Rivers Press. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, The Progressive, ZYZZYVA, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review and the Christian Science Monitor. He has been a writer in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Djerassi Foundation and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at the California College of the Arts.
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"Having Come This Way Before" gives me a powerful sense of the pathos of transitional moments. What inspired this poem?
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 22:53
Congratulations are in order for PS guest blogger Richard Graham, whose book Government Issue: Comics for the People: 1940s-2000s has been nominated for an Eisner Award, otherwise known as the "Oscars of the Comics Industry"!
Richard is up against some illustrious competition, including Will Eisner himself! The results in all categories will be announced on July 13 at Comic-Con International in San Diego. You can see the full list of nominees here.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 09:40
Listen to this excellent audio recording of an excerpt of Elizabeth Trundle's story "Sift" from the current issue.
Megan Persichetti reads; Jim Coleman engineered the recording.
Elizabeth Trundle has degrees from Brown University and Hollins College. As Boo Trundle, she performed and recorded original music, which was released through an imprint of Caroline Records. She has also written for textbooks in the subjects of math and literature. She gathers her thoughts online at www.itchybanquet.com.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 16:52
in which Prairie Schooner contributors give us a glimpse into their writing spaces and sensibilities.
Eric Weinstein’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Best New Poets 2009 anthology, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, and others. He was named a finalist for both the Poetry Foundation’s 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the 2011 National Poetry Series. He lives in New York City.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 09:38
I think I may be the only person in the world who didn’t know how Madame Bovary ends. Like Anna Karenina’s train suicide or The Awakening's closing drowning, Emma Bovary’s death by arsenic remains one of the great cultural referents for end-of-novel suicides. To everyone else, at least. Assigned the novel in a nineteenth-century history class this semester, I dutifully skipped the plot-spoiler introduction, remaining blissfully unaware of Emma’s iconic end as the book unfolded. Until AWP, that is. I have no objections to the panel, which was on the state of the contemporary novel, nor do I remember the exact context of the remark. It was an aside; the panel itself had nothing to do with Flaubert’s famously obsessive work.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 16:44
As part of Air Schooner #5, PS Senior Reader Robert Fuglei interviewed renowned writer ZZ Packer. Listen to the uncut version of ZZ's thoughts on teaching talent in the writing classroom and the importance of voice.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 03/28/2012 - 12:07
Claire Harlan-Orsi interviews the PS Spring 2012 Contributor on her short story, "Bad Aim," and other writing matters
Katie Wudel’s short fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Rumpus, Monkeybicycle, and other publications. A recent writer in residence at Hedgebrook, Katie has taught creative writing at San Francisco’s School of the Arts and the University of Nebraska-Omaha Writer’s Workshop. Her story “Tongueless” was listed among Wigleaf’s Top [Very] Short Fictions of 2011. You can find out more about Katie by visiting www.katiewudel.com.
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You use third person point of view, but Harry's unique (acerbic, vocal) way of seeing things really comes through in the narration. How did you decide on this perspective, and how did you develop Harry's voice?
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Tue, 03/27/2012 - 13:47
As part of Air Schooner #5, host Scott Winter interviewed acclaimed writer Etgar Keret, who talks about his recent New Yorker story, the difficulties of being categorized, and where he gets his inspiration. Check out the full interview here!
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 14:43
This is the second installment of an ongoing series written for the blog by Richard Graham. Richard is an associate professor and media services librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studies the educational use of comics and serves as the film and art history liaison. His posts examine UNL’s, Nebraska’s, and the larger literary world’s connections with the comics medium.
In my previous blog post, I mentioned Ted Kooser’s friendship with underground comix creator S. Clay Wilson. Wilson is one of the original members of the Zap Comix collective, a notorious group that also included Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, and psychedelic poster artists Rick Griffin and Victor Moscoso.
Award-winning writer Jaylan Salah is a poet, translator, content expert, and film critic.Workstation Bluesis a collection from the cubicle for white-collar workers worldwide passing the ti
