by Shifra Sharlin | Dec 17, 2023 | Craft Essay
I urge my students to cherish their digressions. Digressions are your true self bursting through the constraints of the essay’s order, I tell them. Students respond warily to this notion. They know at least as well as I do that true selves can be embarrassing, weird. ...
by Kelcey Ervick | Jun 12, 2023 | Craft Essay
The following is an excerpt from The Rosemetal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature, (available July 2023) edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, reproduced here with permission from the author and press. Why Graphic Literature The first time I asked students to...
by Brenda Miller | Aug 11, 2022 | Craft Essay
The Fault Lines of Memory Embracing Imperfect Memory in Creative Nonfiction “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some...
by Heidi Czerwiec | May 28, 2022 | Craft Essay
A Dash of Dash The Lyric Art of Punctuation With Apologies to Noah Lukeman Before evolving to mark syntax for you, silent reader—hearing these lines in your head, perhaps in a version of your own voice, or perhaps one you’ve invented to suit me (how do I sound to...
