It took me a while during my freshmen year of college at Columbia to discover what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. My first semester, I declared a major in journalism, concentrating in magazine editing. Partially, it was because I…
Interviewed by: Re’Lynn Hansen, Elizabeth Gerard, Hanna Bourdon, Evan Tingey, DeLaynna Corley, Macy Sego, Toya Wolfe, Courtney Freeh, Shannon Zaid Nickole Brown’s books include the collection of poems Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015), Sister, a novel-in-poems (Red Hen Press, 2007), and the anthology Air…
Leave Your Body Behind By Sandra Doller 134 pp. Les Figues Press, $17.00 Gertrude Stein writes to the effect that writing is synonymous with existing and that language is as breathing. Everything has a lot to do with everything. Nothing is disconnected,…
Ernest Hemingway is often misquoted as having said “write drunk, edit sober.” However, as he took his craft very seriously, he would have dismissed this practice as an affront to his process. If he did take up pen while inebriated, it was usually for…
I am not a get up early in the morning and write kind of writer. I am not a set aside a specific amount of hours each day and write kind of writer. I am not a ten pages or ten-thousand words a day…
I wish I could describe a day in my writing life as an overall positive experience; however, I can’t even truly describe it as a day. A day in my writing life can actually take several days or even weeks to feel like a…
[EMOTIONALLY, I AM NOT DOING SO BAD] 1. THE ARTIST IS UNIVERSE the most important moments have been the moments in which i had to be quiet. not because i was following rules, but because to make noise would be to ruin & i knew…