Courting the Place Where Anything Can Happen: Openness to the Unexpected

Posted on November 6, 2014

by Scott Elliott   One of the most dubious-sounding pieces of advice teachers of creative writing sometimes hear themselves offering their students is “make sure you don’t know where you’re going when you set out to write a story, essay, or poem.” This advice flies in the face of what younger students hear in their […]


Lessons of Time, Velocity, and Hard Music: Remembering Walt Pavlich

Posted on May 26, 2014

By Thomas Aslin This morning I searched through my file cabinet before latching onto a file of letters and postcards from the late poet Walter Pavlich. One card, mailed from New Orleans, and covered with Walt’s odd, inky scrawl—half in cursive, half in crabbed-print-style lettering—refers with some heat to the scantily dressed blonde on the […]