August: “So, you’ll be applying for a job, then?” my friend says to me. I cough up a little beer as I process his words. I’m heading into the last year of my M.F.A., and have a few things to show for it: teaching experience, a handful of connections, a few publications here and there, … Continue reading The Final Ten Months of the M.F.A.
Christopher Linforth
An Interview with Mike Dockins
Mike Dockins was born in 1972 and grew up in Yonkers, New York. He holds a BS from SUNY Brockport (1999), an MFA from UMass Amherst (2002), and a Ph.D. from Georgia State (2010). His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, PANK, and in the 2007 edition of The … Continue reading An Interview with Mike Dockins
An Interview with Jazzy Danziger
Jazzy Danziger’s debut collection, Darkroom, is the winner of the 2012 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Danziger studied at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner Fellow in poetry. She currently serves as editor for the Best New Poets anthology. Interviewed by Christopher Linforth How did you … Continue reading An Interview with Jazzy Danziger
VIDA and The Minnesota Review
Over the last couple of years VIDA: Women in Literary Arts have been counting the woman/man ratio in literary journal publishing. Expected, or not, the results were worrisome. In many categories, and at most magazines and best of anthologies, women were constantly being marginalized as authors. So, in the spirit of transparency, here are the minnesota review’s figures … Continue reading VIDA and The Minnesota Review
AWP Recap: Look Me In The Eyes, Not The Nametag!
Near the conference hotel, a lakefront Hilton, in a line for coffee at the Dunkin’ Donuts, a young woman stares at my nametag. For what seems like a minute, her eyes are fixated on my name. She thinks: Is he a writer? Somebody I should know? Or want to know? Can he get my story/poem/manifesto published? Can he … Continue reading AWP Recap: Look Me In The Eyes, Not The Nametag!
An Interview with Katie Fallon
Katie Fallon is the author of the nonfiction book Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011). Katie’s essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and magazines, including The Bark, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Ecotone, Appalachian Heritage, Now & Then, Isotope, Fourth River, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her essay “Hill of the … Continue reading An Interview with Katie Fallon
An Interview with Rachel Ida Buff
Rachel Ida Buff’s essay, “Duluth,” appears in Issue 77 of the minnesota review. Interviewed by Christopher Linforth How long was the gestation period of “Duluth”? When did you feel this was a story that needed to be told? “Duluth” is based on a true story, so it is about a friend I had who really … Continue reading An Interview with Rachel Ida Buff
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