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Magazine Poetry: Words + Glue = Poem, By Erin Geyen
No, you’re not technically writing, but creating “magazine poetry” is a good exercise to get you out of your own head. Experiencing writer’s block? Spread out, use new tools and muscles, find words that aren’t your own and claim them. Here’s a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jonathan Greenhause
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? “You’re the deciduous forest” was written a few years ago while I was writing a lot of poems that were basically litanies of contradictory statements. In truth, I tend to write quite a few of these. This...
Four Ways To Live Your Writing Life In The Twin Cities, By Sonia Johnson
In my first semester at Hamline’s MFA Program, the poet Gretchen Marquette came to visit one of our classes. During a Q&A with our class, she was asked about her writing practice. The student asked whether she wrote everyday, and if she did,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Lesley Wheeler
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I’m working on a collection that’s in part about turning fifty, and it contains a lot of poems that riff on that number in one way or another—a poem called “L” in fifty-character lines, for example. I...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Esteban Rodriguez
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I first wrote the poem “Ventriloquist” when I was living in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s by no means uncommon to hear English and Spanish (or a combination of both) spoken throughout the region. However,...
Poetry Matters, By Jason Ryou
Language and communication are essential to life and culture, but where is poetry’s place in a world where the emphasis is on speed and efficiency? If one can get past the notion that poetry is only for intellectuals and scholars, that it is...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Tyler McAndrew
1. Tell us about your short story in Volume 20. How did it come to be? A pretty huge percentage of the stories that I write begin as things that I just think are funny, just little jokes that I'm telling to myself. Initially, the only thing I knew about “How I Came to...
Early Bird Writes the Book: An Interview with Author and Hamline Grad, Lucie Amundsen, on the Benefits of Early Morning Writing, By Jessica Lind Peterson
I wish I was a morning person. I really, really do. I wish I rose early enough to witness the morning sun kissing the horizon on its way up, to hear the birds early morning chatter. But I am not a morning person. Not even a little bit. I’ve...