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The cover of the book impossible bottle side by side.
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L’Appel du Vide: On Visual Caesuras and Erasure

ByEmilia Phillips

I take the five students of my poetry micro-workshop outside to discuss Claudia Emerson’s latest collection Impossible Bottle. As we sit in the sun, bending over the brilliant bright book pages, a student points to the poem “Metastasis: Web” and volunteers to read it aloud before our analysis of the author’s craft choices. You—join us….

The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

ByLara Palmquist

As Virginia Woolf famously observed, the best writing often begins with a rhythmical “wave in the mind,” an inner tempo around which syntax and diction are arranged, a guiding beat of artistic intuition that, when struck upon, makes it nearly impossible to set down the wrong word. Other writers have similarly expressed the importance of…