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“I’m Attempting to Connect Poetry and Science”

7 January, 2010 от Robert · 2 comments

Bob Baker’s interview with Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess. Poems from the book appeared on Verse Daily and on The Writer’s Almanac, and two were chosen for the 2007 The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She teaches at National University and volunteers at Crab Creek Review.

Suppose you are [...]

Bozhana Apostolova: “Writing is an inner eruption of emotions”

30 April, 2009 от Natalie · No comments

An interview of Nataliya Nikolaeva with Bozhana Apostolova – a poet, writer and publisher, owner of “Zhanet 45” Publishing House.

“Success is when you make people happy.”
Bozhana Apostolova
There are artists who have the talent of sheltering harmoniously within themselves several gifts. Such is the talent of Bozhana Apostolova – an inspired poet, prose writer and patron [...]

Writing Poetry Makes me a More Careful Writer

12 March, 2009 от katerina klemer · No comments

Interview with Pat Valdata by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Pat Valdata writes novels, poems and nonfiction. Her publications include the novels The Other Sister (published by Plain View Press, 2008), Crosswind (published by Wind Canyon Publishing, 1997) and the poetry chapbook Looking for Bivalve (from Pecan Grove Press, 2002).
Pat received an MFA in writing from Goddard College and [...]

Thoughts on (Not) Journaling

17 February, 2009 от eclift · 2 comments

Elayne Clift

Photo: peregrineblue
As a writer, I commit the cardinal sin: I don’t keep a journal. But I journal constantly.
Although I didn’t have a secret diary as an adolescent, I wrote poetry. Now my “journal” is comprised of commentaries I write compulsively. As Edna O’Brien once said, “I’m a tuning fork, and [...]

It’s The Writing That Counts

10 December, 2008 от katerina klemer · 4 comments

Interview with Richard Goodman by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Richard Goodman is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Commonweal, Vanity Fair, Garden [...]

Sabazius

3 October, 2008 от Kristin Dimitrova · 1 comment

Kristin Dimitrova

Photo: Andrew Turner
(The following is an excerpt from a novel)
(Some remarks, inconsiderable events and traits of the characters are stolen from reality, but the novel is entirely fictional. A myth, however, is true because of the bigger story it relates, and not because of the costumes the characters wear at every appearance.)
…Sabazius – [...]