Seems like a bizarre sort of juxtaposition, right? Especially with all of the media attention surrounding video games lately. But, as a twenty-one year old English student who has been an avid fan of video games since I could first hold a gameboy, I find this form of entertainment to be just…
The Writer and Rejection
Hey, LRR readers/writers! Those of you that submitted to the Long River Review this year may be wondering what’s going on with submissions. Well, the deadline has come and gone, so the panels are working on making their selections. To those of you that will end up getting…
Get Yourself Lucky: Starting a New Job at a Publishing Company
I just returned from a run over a bridge and back in the rain and I’m thinking about three things: The job I just started, the neighborhood I just moved to, and the essay that’s been haunting me since I started writing it in Ellen Litman’s creative writing class last…
My Summer Internship at W.W. Norton
This summer I interned as the electronic media assistant in the college department at W.W. Norton & Company. Given my past internship experiences and my editorship on the Long River Review, I had thought it would be easy to get a summer internship at a publishing company. My naïveté was…
Graduating in Poetic Form
My first weekend of college it poured. In typical New England fashion, the skies opened and the rain came down in the warm summer darkness. Refusing to let the weather ruin our weekend, we donned trash bags and went outside to dance in the rain and go sledding in the…
Interview with Melissa Watterworth Batt (2012)
During these past two semesters, I have worked as an intern in the archives at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, first blogging for the SideStream section of the Fresh Pickin’s blog and, more recently, writing biographies for the finding aids. As an intern I have had the privilege of…
Where are the Female Poets?
Earlier this semester I was fortunate enough to sit down with Shara McCallum, UConn’s Aetna Writer-in-Residence for the spring, and have her review my work. As anybody who had the opportunity to talk to Shara while she was on campus can attest to, she was incredibly lovely and warm, and…
Spoken Word Poetry
Recently, while skimming through some TED Talks, I came upon a talk done by Sarah Kay on Spoken Word Poetry. Prior to this talk, I had never heard of spoken word. I assumed it was when poets traveled to different cafés, universities, and book stores to read their recently published…
An Interview with Kay Ryan (2012)
On April 9 and 10, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan visited the University of Connecticut as the 49th annual Wallace Stevens poet. Amanda Norelli wrote an introduction for Ms. Ryan on the blog last week, which can be read here for those unfamiliar with Ryan’s accolades. …
Authors and Alcoholism
I’d like to believe you don’t have to be an alcoholic, drug addict, or suicidal to be a killer writer, but these tendencies certainly frequent many great authors’ lives. In every literature class I have taken, my professors present the pieces to be read that semester along with the biographies…
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