And so the formerly greedy businessman bids “good riddance!” to Wall Street and takes up trying to illustrate the lives of the less fortunate though photography. Or perhaps the starving artist, grappling with existential crises and profound writer’s block, takes a magic pill and realizes that books aren’t good enough…
With Love and Light All Around: Interview with Poet John L. Stanizzi (2015)
It isn’t often that you have the chance to understand a high school mentor as both a child and adult but I have had the fortunate opportunity to know poet John L. Stanizzi as both a teacher and friend. Myself, like many others have benefited from his ability to make poetry a deeply…
“All Sex is Alien”
On February 24th, 2015, Benjamin Grossberg paid a visit to the University of Connecticut Co-Op bookstore to read some of his work and answer some questions for his audience about his writing and editing life. Grossberg, an Assistant poetry editor and book reviewer for the Antioch, has published many pieces…
How do you choose which book to read next?
There are a lot of ways to do this. Recommendations from friends and professors, book lists from magazines, book reviews in a newspaper—maybe you just choose a book at random at your local bookstore. The internet has created even more ways to choose your next book. Let me introduce you…
An Important Novel for Our Generation: The Circle
As an English major, obviously most of my assignments involve reading or writing. For my advanced study in Digital Rhetoric class, we are currently reading a novel called The Circle written by Dave Eggers. This novel is essential for everyone in our generation to read, as it details the truly…
If You Don’t Have Time to Read…
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”—Stephen King The library has always been my own sort of haven: a cool, air-conditioned resort, an oasis, the best way to escape the stifling summertime heat. Shelves and shelves and…
The Next Great Poet…Google?
As a student of English, anthropology and digital art at UConn, a writer, a millennial, and a human being, I have always been intrigued by the emergence of digital culture, and how we write about our culture, and how it in turn influences our writing. Last semester, I took a…
5 Tips for Being a Good Editor
A good writer is nothing without a good editor. However, a good editor is not always easy to come by. Just as there is an art to writing, there is an art to editing. Here are five tips for being a good editor. Proofreading is not editing. Proofreading (or copyediting)…
Rebel Against Yourself
Often when we settle down to read for pleasure, we instinctively reach for an easy read, a book we can flip through and digest in a single sitting without coming up for air. These are books to be briefly enjoyed, then dismissed from our minds. We should keep reading them….
On Being “Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing:” Black Women Poets You Should Know
Audre Lorde, a famous black lesbian feminist poet, ends her poem “A Woman Speaks” with the lines, “I am/woman/and not white.” What may come off as obvious or overly simplistic in this statement actually speaks to larger structures of power that operate within feminist and anti-racist movement discourses. By claiming…
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