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: Nick Flynn on seeing his life’s most painful moments re-enacted (by Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, and Paul Dano) in the movie adaptation of his memoir; Kevin Prufer on sentimentality and complexity; a look at… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: All Things Considered’s first “newspoet,” a brief history of (hyperbolic, formulaic, sometimes downright misleading) blurbs, and responses from several creative writing professors to Anis Shivani’s snarky question, “Can Creative Writing Be Taught?”
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: looking at cellar door, supposedly the most beautiful phrase in the English language, and how it pops up in pop culture; remembering poets Dorothea Tanning and Wisława Szymborska; and continuing the Great MFA Debate over at Ploughshares. Check out… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: what does it mean (and require) to “be a poet,” what are the sacred rules of the creative writing workshop, and why is it so damn hard to tend to books and babies simultaneously? Check… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the Pushcart’s apparent bias against online journals, Microsoft Word’s effect on not only the writing process but its product, and other shiny bits of literary flotsam and jetsam.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the hilarious Hipster-Literary-Bro continuum, totally safe for work bookshelf porn, and books repurposed as decorative and functional iPhone docks and flask holders, among other things.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Helen Vendler takes Rita Dove to task for being too inclusive in the new Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, which segues nicely into the harshest writer-on-writer and musician-on-musician insults in history, which takes us… Read More
For my last Mix Tape of the year on the Kenyon Review blog, here’s a look back at ten of my favorite literary tidbits from Mix Tape 2011—the sublime, the ridiculous, and a few things not easily classified as either.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: holiday gift ideas for the grammar geeks (not grammar geek’s!) in your life, haiku traffic signs in New York City, an anonymous paper artist strikes again, and much more.
Maggie Smith 