In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the problem with being a submitter but not a subscriber; a collection of open letters to Mitt Romney from Erin Belieu, Mark Wunderlich, Juliana Baggott, and many others; five reasons why poems get rejected; and much… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Edith Wharton is played by a 30-year-old Russian supermodel? Dick Durbin is taking an online contemporary poetry course? Catch up on these stories and much more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the pitfalls of the “buckshot or cluster-bomb strategy” of simultaneously submitting work to multiple journals; the three types of stories unlikely to survive beyond the slush pile, including “sad garage sale”; an interview with Dinty W.… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Will the old writing you’ve disowned—the poems full of mixed metaphors, the stories you never knew how to end, the essays that seem to fall flat—follow you around forever? How is posthumous publishing like organ donation, according… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: a look at the gratuitous-by-nature, name-dropping acknowledgments page; the rise of the book-review-for-hire; writing advice from Roxane Gay; and much more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Andrew Scott’s response to the “ladder-climbing” and “posturing” behind nasty reviews and other writer-on-writer crimes; Flannery O’Connor’s response to an English professor who wrote and asked her to explain one of her short stories; and much more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Is social media turning readers into yes-men/women? Are book covers a dying art? Can the Jonah Lehrer snafu get any worse? Check out these stories and more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the relationship between increasing literacy and decreasing brutality (maybe poetry has changed the world!); the history of poetry at the Olympics; a proposed alternative to the post-MFA adjunct grind; and much more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the cease-and-desist letter Lazy Fascist Press received from Jack Daniels concerning a book cover; Lace Sensor Dresses, which play poems aloud through tiny, sewn-in speakers when parts of the dresses are touched; a 1968 BBC interview with a… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: literary characters and what they were almost named; meeting your literary nemesis in an MFA program; a Bukowski-Sondheim musical; and much more.
Maggie Smith 