Kobayashi Issa is one of Japan's most prolific poets; he left in his journals over twenty thousand "one-breath poems"—we know them as haiku. You can find a timeline of his life here, and at this site, you can search a...
Two years ago, I was working on a new writing project,
something undertaken just for fun and which was rapidly turning into a story collection
of sorts. And I realized that for some reason, I had stopped reading...
One of our finest and most decorated contemporary American poets, Louise Glück published her first book of poetry in 1968 and her most recent, Faithful and Virtuous Night, in 2014. You can find an article about...
Yesterday I wrote a little something about my creative process, and today I'm sharing one of my favorite poems, which has always, to me, said a little something on the same topic. Its author, Stephen Crane, is best...
I listened to the author Samantha
Harvey on our local university radio station yesterday. She spoke about her novel,
Dear Thief, which received several
awards, including being longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
