February 2017 
What We Talk About When We Talk About Voice
Sandra Beasley
I believe in systems that help writers articulate their voices, and then control those voices through discrete, explicit decisions.
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"I Live My Life In Growing Orbits": Robert Bly as Role Model
Tony Hoagland
Read today, Iron John still seems far-sighted, compassionate, smart, and important Bly's clear, discriminating prose style also makes these books intensely readable.
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Interview with Annie Dillard & Robert Richardson
Michael Collins
I've taken notes on my reading all my life. I read what interests me, write down what interests me, and all this stuff bangs around in my head.
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Haunted
Jill McCorkle
I meant to write and didn’t, every word I wanted to say but hadn’t. I never pass by that building—and I do many times every year—without feeling haunted by my own failures.
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Ambiguities that Clarify
H.L. Hix
If the world were made, first and foremost, of things, then in our language uses (our poems, our stories, our essays) we would want always to disambiguate.
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This Commodious Desert: Finding Lee K. Abbott
Matt Cashion
When I finished the first paragraph of the first story of Abbott’s most recent book, All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories (Norton), I tried to slow my reading, to savor the sentences, to linger in the hyper-real worlds that allow escape and require immersion...
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Middle Passage at 25: Charles Johnson Reflects on His National Book Award–Winning Novel and More
Robin Lindley
In a spiritual sense, I come down closer to Ellison's attitude about storytelling than I do with other writers.
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