This year the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program will feature former U.S. poet laureate and 2011 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Kay Ryan. Though Ryan did not publish her first book until she was forty years old her work has earned…

A tension often belies the relationship of the writer and the reader. Some authors are vehemently and vocally opposed to certain interpretations of their work, while still others refuse to even read reviews or criticism of their stories, novels, or poems. Authors even go so far as to directly interfere…

Last year, the team at LRR created a video sharing the words they felt best described the magazine. Since then, the Long River Review has evolved, and it welcomes a new round of editors with their take on what makes the LRR unique. For all of these reasons, become part…

1. You use those golden words you picked up from class, like juxtapose and dichotomy, way too frequently in everyday conversations, like a phone call with your mother who’s clearly not impressed. 2. You talk about famous writers like you know them personally, the way Matt Damon’s character in Good…

Writer’s Block. Those dreaded words no writer likes to hear. We sympathize with those who have it, we look for support when we’ve got it ourselves. It seems like writer’s block is inevitable, but here are three things I use to help myself when I’ve got it – and hopefully…

Nothing beats writing to a good soundtrack.  Great songs have gotten me through the worst days of my life, and have complimented some of my best moments.  I might carry a pen and notebook with me almost everywhere, but I am absolutely addicted to my iPod. I have a ridiculous…