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June 1, 2022

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Brian Clements|An Essay on Craft||”Some Generic Notes on Short Prose”


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November 12, 2020

Featured Writer Kendra Tanacea|An Essay on Craft|”James Wright: The Alchemy of a Poet”


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March 18, 2020

Featured Writer Parsh Tiwari|An Essay on Craft|”Haibun Uncaged”


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February 22, 2020

Featured Writer Natalie Young|An Essay on Craft|”The Question of May Swenson”


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February 1, 2020

Featured Writer Devon Balwit|An Essay on Craft|”What’s It For?”

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February 1, 2020

Featured Writer Kate Hanson Foster|An Essay on Craft|”Crow Funerals and the Loss of Meaning”

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January 11, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”

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January 11, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”

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December 27, 2019

Featured Writer Kent Dixon|An Essay on Craft|”Flash Discourse: The Long of the Short of It”

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