There’s no denying it, teaching writing can be daunting. Now add to that the challenge of disengaged students – or worse, students that don’t even want to go to school – and it becomes an impossible task. Yet according to AERO CEO, Dr Jenny Donovan: “Writing is the foundation skill that students require to understand […]
Turkey leg and sea king. On the first day, God said, “Let the atmospheric water vapors condense and become rain,” and so there was a downpour, and it was inconvenient. But we had ponchos. It was November at Disney World, and ponchos were like noses or smartphones in that every visitor had one, of course […]
ChatGPT is an incredibly powerful language model that has a wide range of applications, particularly in the field of writing. By leveraging the prompts provided by ChatGPT, writers can generate text that is not only informative but also creative and engaging, elevating their writing to new heights. ChatGPT has become a popular tool for individuals […]
Before my debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy , was even a twinkle in my eye, I was a poet. Sometimes I wrote short stories, rarely longer than 2,500 words. I approached everything I wrote like I was robbing a bank. Get in and get out. Who doesn’t love a tight little banger? , I assured myself. […]
For 1,500 years, no writer except Virgil held more esteem in the classical world than Seneca . And today? “We read every major tragedian in the Western tradition, except Seneca,” says poet and author Dana Gioia , a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “If Seneca’s plays survived the sack of Rome, […]
Peng (right) attends the Indie Bookstore Festival held in Wuhan, Hubei province, in April. [Photo provided to China Daily] On business trips, Peng always took small books with him, and finished reading one each day. On the surface, he was a salesman traveling around to sell products, but actually he was immersed in a literary […]
By Peg Aloi The Lesson is well-crafted, infused with nervy suspense and an almost Gothic sense of unease. The Lesson , directed by Alice Troughton. Screening AMC Boston Common 19 and Kendall Square Cinema. Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack in The Lesson. Photo: Anna Patarakina Films about famous writers tend to imbue their subject with […]
For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Sara Deniz Akant. Akant is a Turkish-American poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022, NYT Best Books 2022), Babette (Rescue Press 2015, winner of the Black Box prize), Parades (Omnidawn 2014, winner […]
“The green gold is the living quality which the alchemists saw not only in man but also in inorganic nature. It is an expression of the life spirit, the anima mundi or filius macrocosmi , the Anthropos who animates the whole cosmos. This spirit has poured himself into everything, even into inorganic matter; he is […]
It’s that spooky frisson that makes you, for a split second, want to throw your book across the room. Or chuckle. Or flail, blindly, for the familiar barrier between storyworld and readerworld—you know, your world. There’s nothing as electric as an experimental flourish executed well, and metafiction (defined, loosely, as fiction which draws attention to […]
