Dixon Hearne writes the American South. He is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry. His work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the PEN/Hemingway and PEN/Faulkner awards. From Tickfaw to Shongaloo was awarded Second Place in the 2014 Faulkner Novella Competition, judged by Moira Crone. His latest book is Plainspeak: New and Selected Poems. Other work appears in Oxford American, New Orleans Review, Tulane Review, Louisiana Literature, Potomac Review, Wisconsin Review, New Plains Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, and elsewhere. He has published five books of fiction, three anthologies, and innumerable short stories in magazines and journals. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and book events, including the 2009, 2015, and 2016 Louisiana Book Festivals. …
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On a late afternoon in February, as snow was just starting to stick to the highway, I had finished teaching my social psychology class at a university in Baltimore, Maryland and was driving to an evening game of tennis. I was fifty-nine at the time and I had played tennis for thirty-five of those years. I have a love affair with tennis, a sport that mentally transports me to a place where troubles and petty annoyances are lost in the sheer joy and focus of the game; what I imagined Csikszentmihalyi was talking about when he described the concept of flow.
My doubles partner that evening was a player new to the group. She was probably in her early thirties, around the age of my own daughter.…
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Jacqueline Berger’s first poetry collection, The Mythologies of Danger, selected by Alberto Rios, won the Bluestem Award and was published in 1998. It went on to win the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award the same year. Her second book, Things That Burn, selected by Poet Laureate Mark Strand, was the 2004 winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and was published through the University of Utah Press. The Gift That Arrives Broken won the Autumn House Poetry Prize was published in 2010, and some poems from the book were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac. She is a professor of English at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California and lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Bruce Snider, author of Paradise, Indiana comments about your latest book: “Everything has a place in Berger’s concise and compelling narratives as she examines intersections of memory and loss, exploring the infinite ways the past shadows the present.…
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What is the purpose of literary education, and is it being fulfilled? I have been taught to connect the blackness of Othello to the racial issues in current times, to find applicable examples for Emerson’s Self Reliance in my life, and to see The Crucible as a direct comparison to the Women’s March. My name is Jesse, and I am a junior in high school.
I have questions about the state of literary analysis and the portrayal of literature in educational institutions in an era when politics and education seamlessly (and haphazardly) mix, a time when traditional authors succumb to the vicissitudes of 21st-century opinion, and colleges make headlines for protesting literature classes almost as frequently or more so than they do for achieving substantive advancements in knowledge.…
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Jules Henderson is a Writing MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco where she studies under D.A. Powell, Bruce Snider, Brynn Saito, and Rachel Richardson. Her work has appeared at The Paradise Review, The Bookends Review, The Social Poet, The Drunken Odyssey, and in Words Fly Away, a collection of poems that address the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
In this episode of Cover to Cover with . . ., Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum chats with Henderson about her piece “Ad Vitam,” studying under such accomplished writers, the intersectionality of poetry and music, and more!
– Jules Henderson…
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Mindy Kronenberg is the publisher and editor of Book/Mark: A Quarterly Small Press Review (located in Miller Place, New York.) It welcomes inquiries and 500-950 word reviews of small press books, which it publishes in hard copy. Mindy’s work appears in many journals and anthologies. Feel free to email her at cyberpoet@optonline.net.
When did Book/Mark: A Quarterly Small Press Review begin? What are some of the places it has archived?
We’ve been around since 1994, and archived with the NY Public Library, Poets House in NYC, William and Mary College (Williamsburg, Virginia). We’re also listed with the Critics Circle Guide, International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, The Writer’s Handbook (distributed through the Suffolk Cooperative Library System) and the Community of Literary Magazines and Pressed (CLMP).…
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The ritual of drinking coffee has always been something special in my family. Not only in
my family but in Serbia in general.
This centuries-old tradition of drinking black coffee was inherited from Turks while Serbia
was under the Ottoman rule.
The Turkish black coffee has always been the favorite coffee of all Serbs. Even when the burst of different coffee flavors has overruled the habit of drinking black coffee in other European countries, people in Serbia have remained loyal to the strong black coffee that had a unique way of preparation and smelled and tasted heavenly. No Serb would ever say that any other coffee tastes better. And rarely anyone in Serbia drinks any other coffee first thing in the morning except the Turkish coffee.…
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