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LATEST POSTS
My Latest Project
This announcement is about two months overdue, but I wanted to share my latest project with all of you! I (along with two friends) have been releasing a weekly newsletter called The Iron Quill. Loosely inspired by The Federalist Papers, The Iron Quill addresses and shares news, legislation, art, resources, protest information, and our thoughts on current events. We are both team-written, and accepting submissions. Each issue of…
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The Latest Writing Prompt!
Writing Prompt #46
Hullo fabulous folks! Grab a pen and a notebook! To celebrate the resuscitation of this blog, Prompt #46 is going to be all about rebirth, rejuvenation, and recovery. When was the last time you sat down and thought about something you overcame in life—college application statements don’t count! It’s time to do a little appreciation…
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THOUGHTS ABOUT
Thoughts About “You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet”
In this three stanza poem, Gordon Smith evolves his use of punctuation to help evolve the flow of the poem to suit the context of the words. The first stanza is one sentence, the only…
Thoughts About “Hologram”
In the poem “Hologram,” Lauren Westerfield makes use of a variety of different forms of repetition. Anaphora, in particular, is one form of repetition she utilizes consistently. Each section of this four section poem has…
Thoughts About “Interstellar Fingerprints”
Annie Marhefka, in Interstellar Fingerprints, weaves reality and metaphor into a heart-wrenching, though gentle, tide. “[W]e were three sailboats whipping over the water, each navigating a separate course, vying for the wind to inflate our…
REVIEWS
Review of “Flash Fiction International”
Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World is an anthology of flash fiction that has lived on my bookshelf for a number of years now. All eighty-six of these stories served as…
A Review of “Club Plum”
“Club Plum is a house party. We play all the good music. The DJ dances and laughs and knows that today is yesterday, and today is tomorrow, and pain is forever, so we’ve got to…
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New Publication!
I’m excited to announce that my poem Confessional appears in Issue 5 of the Orange Couch, which dropped today! Please go check it out, along with all the other awesome contributors! Additionally, I have two…
Scaling the Cliff: Submitting to Literary Journals for the First Time
A friend asked me today about getting published in literary journals and magazines, and I want to share my response with all of you. I love helping people get started with getting published, and talk…
I’m Back!
Hey folks! I’m back! First, allow me to apologize for the lengthy and sudden absence–I was, unfortunately, too ambitious with my original posting schedule for this blog. Juggling grad school, work, planning for my career,…
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