How to Be Painterly: Conjuring the Poetic Image The poetic image, in its most painterly forms, is not just aContinue Reading

The Technique of Place “Carried off we might be in spirit, and should be, when we are reading or writingContinue Reading

Finding Your Voice This workshop helps you find that authentic signature that makes your writing distinct and immediately recognisable. ElsewhereContinue Reading

I Have Made an Elegy for Myself  This workshop concerns memory. Specifically, the ways a poem—the elegy—memorializes the dead. WhatContinue Reading

People and Place “Create a world for your characters to move around in; if not you cannot fully conjure them.”Continue Reading

Reaction/Fiction “Books come out of books,” Cormac McCarthy once said. He’s right of course; fiction has always come out ofContinue Reading