Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
November 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|”The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
November 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTS
November 8, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE:|Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaced Youth”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
September 2, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|A Review of Tolu Akinyemi’s|”I Laugh at these Skinny Girls”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
August 1, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Prose Discourse: Fiction||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|A Review of And Yes She Was, a novel by Tsipi Keller
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
July 27, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
June 29, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Bai Xiao-Yi’s|‘Explosion in the Parlor’”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 14, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROSE POETRY ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
June 13, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Dino Buzzati’s ‘The Falling Girl'”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
May 24, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lon Otto’s Flash Fiction|’Love Poems'”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Peter Meinke’s ‘The Cranes'”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s|’The Blue Bouquet’”
WritersFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Raymond Carver’s|’Popular Mechanics'”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|An Essay on Craft|”The Question of May Swenson”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 22, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft|”An Essential Reading List:|FLASH FICTION/SUDDEN FICTION/SHORT-SHORT FICTION|ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS, AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)TraditionalNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
February 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Charles Baudelaire’s|’To Each His Own Chimera'”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS2017-18Translation
February 13, 2020
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning/Translation||Kathleen Vail|”The Horses of Achilles by C. P. Cavafy:|A New Translation”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Devon Balwit|An Essay on Craft|”What’s It For?”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
February 1, 2020
Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|An Essay on Craft|”Crow Funerals and the Loss of Meaning”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDNarrative poetryClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close reading
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|An Essay on Craft|”So Sweet and So Cold:|Plums and Poems from Romania to New Jersey”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationSpa-Haibun
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Mixed Forms|Haibun||Contributing Editor Christine Taylor|”An Introduction to Haibun”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 20, 2020
Featured Writer Rachel Custer|An Essay on Craft|”Songs on the Way to God: A Theory of Poetics”
WritersNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
January 18, 2020
Featured Writer Gail Goepfert|An Essay on Craft|”Thinking about Process: Planting or Planning”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2017-18Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Fielding Dawson’s ‘Vertical Fields'”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers'”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Milos Macourek’s ‘Jacob’s Chicken'”
WritersFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED2019 archiveFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explication
January 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Molly Giles’s ‘The Writers’ Model’”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 9, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|Interview|”Managing Editor Kalireyna Streeby|talks with poet Terry Lucas”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDSPA-Lucas
January 8, 2020
Featured Writer Terry Lucas|An Essay on Craft|”The Future of American Poetry in the 21st Century: Trajectories of Content and Form”*
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS2017-18
December 22, 2019