Letters on MFAs

Friends and strangers and old classmates and coworkers have all been asking me: What is an MFA? I’m sure I’m not the only one here in this program who gets asked this.

Review of Kim Gek Lin Short’s Run

Kim Gek Lin Short’s Run is nothing short of what you always wanted from a cross-genre hybridity of poesy merged with a fatal fable of death/love/sex. I think it’s poetry, but there’s

Review of Shelly Taylor’s Black-Eyed Heifer

The man chooses not to see outside of, says my mood’s this, whisks the eggs. An otherwise performance would be a negation of hands into birdcage from which the rose trees grow

Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?

AWP was big and shiny, smelled like a cinnamon roll, and filled with a whole lot of writers.  The ratio of those with glasses to those without glasses was considerably higher than

Every day we hustlin’

Sonora Review hustled nearly all the issues we brought to AWP. Hope ya’ll new readers enjoy! We met a lot of beautiful beautiful people. Also, I think we non-violently settled the quarrel

Don’t Forget

Short Short Contest: A prize of $1,000 and publication in Sonora Review is given annually for a short short story. Joe Wenderoth will judge. Submit a story of up to 1,000 words

“Publish the poem, not the poet”

Elisa Gabbert is not happy with the work she’s been getting. Choice quote: “Poems are not supposed to be beautiful (though they can be).  They’re supposed to be good.” –Jon W.

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