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Tag Archives: Nick Flynn
I Am Not the Actor; This Can’t Be the Scene: Quadrophenia b/w Nick Flynn’s The Reenactments
I feel as if I were in a motion picture theater, the long arm of the light crossing the darkness and spinning my eyes, fixed on the screen. —Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities There’s truth in patterns of nature that … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #54: Boston, MA (Part 1)
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged 826 Boston, AGNI, Boston Review, Brattle Book Shop, Commonwealth Books, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Lehane, DeWitt Henry, Grolier Poetry Shop, Grub Street, Harvard Review, Henry David Throreau, Henry James, Infinite Jest, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, MFA programs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nick Flynn, Post Road, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Raven Used Books, Redivider, Robert Frost, Robert Parker, Salamander, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Bostonians, The Scarlet Letter, Trident Booksellers, Walden
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Literary Boroughs #5: Brooklyn, NY
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. The series will run on our blog from May … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Alexandra Styron, Amitav Gosh, Amy Hempel, Arthur Phillips, Beastie Boys, Ben Lerner, Betty Smith, Black Square Editions, Blast, BOMB Magazine, BookCourt, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn College's Creative Writing MFA, Brooklyn Flea, Brooklyn Lit Crawl, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Writers Space, Building on Bond, Café Grumpy, Carroll Gardens, Central Park, Chloe Caldwell, Christine Schutt, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Colson Whitehead, Columbia Waterfront, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Da Bums, Darin Strauss, Desperate Characters, DiFara Pizza, Dinaw Mengestu, Dodgers, DUMBO, Elissa Schappell, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Barton, Fanny Howe, Fiona Maazel, Fort Greene, Francie Nolan, Francisco Goldman, Frederick Law Olmstead, Freebird Books, George Packer, Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenlight Bookstore, Greenpoint, Hanging Loose Magazine, Hannah Tinti, Heather Aimee O’Neill, Heidi Julavits, In Cold Blood, Iris Café, Jami Attenberg, Jennifer Egan, Jessica Hagedorn, Jhumpa Lahiri, John Burnham Schwartz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Joshua Ferris, Julia Agoo, Junior's Cheesecake, Junot Diaz, Kathryn Harrison, Katie Roiphe, Katy Lederer, Keith Gessen, Laird Hunt, Laura Secor, Lewis Warsh, Literary Boroughs, Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, Marianne Moore, Mark Strand, Meghan O’Rourke, Melissa Sandor, Mermaid Parade, Michael Cunningham, Michael Kimball, Michael Thomas, Moonshot Magazine, Myla Goldberg, Nathaniel Rich, Nicholas Boggs, Nick Flynn, Nicole Krauss, One Story, P.S. Boookshop, Paul Auster, Paula Fox, Pet's Candy Store Reading Series, Pete Hamill, Philip Gourevitch, Phillip Levine, Prospect Park, Red Hook, Rick Moody, Rob Spillman, Roots Café, Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Samantha Hunt, Sarah Manguso, Saturday Night Fever, Slice, Sophie's Choice, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Suketu Mehta, Sunset Park, Susan Choi, Terese Svoboda, The Community Bookstore, The Cyclone, The Folding Chair, The Powerhouse Arena, Thulani Davis, Tracie K. Morris, Truman Capote, Valentino Pier, Victoria Redel, Vijat Seshadri, Walt Whitman, William Styron, Williamsburg, Word, Wyndham Lewis
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Gatekeepers Part Four-point-Two: in defense of “telling” and sentimental preachiness
Two winters ago, brand-new to the creative writing community of Madison, Wisconsin, I was at ground zero of the national debate on union rights, caught in a throng of 70,000 protestors marching around the State Capitol, screaming “Whose Streets? Our … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Ai, Allen Ginsberg, Campbell McGrath, Carolyn Forché, cliche, didacticism, don't tell, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, Garcia-Marquez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hejinian, Jesse Jackson, Joyce, Langston Hughes, Madison Wisconsin, Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, Pinsky, Rukeyser, Sean Bishop, sensationalism, sentimentality, show, Silliman, Stein, the late great Adrienne Rich, Yeats, Zukofsky
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May 22nd in New York: Spring 2012 Issue Celebration
Join guest editor Nick Flynn and fifteen contributors to the Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares as they read from their writing and celebrate the new issue! The event is free and open to the public, plus the first ten guests … Continue reading
The Embodied Poem: On Writing “Palace” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav‘s poem, “Palace,” appears in our Spring 2012 issue, guest edited by Nick Flynn. “Palace” opens with these lines: When they run out of meat men disappear. I chew my hair, a kind of fullness that is kind, a … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors' Notes
Tagged "Palace", contributors' notes, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Nick Flynn, poetry, Spring 2012
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Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann’s poems, “(why your room has a door),” “(ode),” and “energy” appear in our Spring 2012 issue, guest edited by Nick Flynn. “(why your room has a door)” opens with these lines: It’s not the shore; it’s the ocean … Continue reading
Nick Flynn: Q&A and Reading (with videos and blurry photos!)
Spring guest editor Nick Flynn stopped by Emerson last night to read, introduce the issue, and chat with Ploughshares poetry editor John Skoyles. He was introduced by poet and novelist Pablo Medina and Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph. Nick read his … Continue reading
Posted in Multimedia, Ploughshares News, Uncategorized
Tagged memoir, Nick Flynn, poetry, reading, Spring 2012
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