Blog Grid Blog On writing the teenage character by Asiya Haouchine April 23, 2016 People give J.D. Salinger too much flak about his ability to write when it comes to Holden Caulfield of Salinger’s most famous novel, The Catcher in... Revolutionizing Literature: Literary Magazines and the Digital Age by Alexandra Cichon April 12, 2016 In the wee hours of the morning, with the DIAGRAM magazine tab open in my browser, I surf the magazine’s current issue, absorbing each pixel of... The Legacy of the Great Gatsby by Laura Ruttan April 12, 2016 “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” —F. Scott... An ode to Jim Harrison By Sten Spinella March 31, 2016 Jim Harrison died on Saturday, March 26th, 2016. Don’t let the innocuous name fool you; Harrison was an extraordinary man. For those who watch the... MFA—Recipe For Success or Disaster? By Kate Monica March 31, 2016 “Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?” —Chang-rae Lee, On... Francis Ponge: Things, Doodads, and Whatchamacallits by Nicholas DiBenedetto March 27, 2016 *Author’s Note: I’d like to thank Darcie Dennigan for introducing me to Francis Ponge and his poems, and Kerry Carnahan, Shannon Hearn, Emily... Remembering Robert Frost by Emily Cantor March 26, 2016 “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on.” —Robert Frost Today marks the 142nd birthday of the American poet... “Striking Prayer’s Attitude:” A Dalliance with the Poetry of Carl Phillips by Nicholas DiBenedetto March 16, 2016 “Sometimes the thought that I’m doomed / to fail – that the body is – keeps me almost steady,” – Carl Phillips Thus writes Carl Phillips in “Stray,”... A review of Richard Siken’s War of the Foxes by Kate Monica March 14, 2016 “Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the... «‹545556575859606162›»