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Many Forms of Rejection
Rejection is a part of writing. Many years ago, a great writer who has published several books (who shall remain nameless) told me that she still gets rejected by journals more often than she gets...
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Come In and Cover Me
Come In and Cover Me Gin Phillips Riverhead Books, January 2012 342 pages $26.95 “What did people do when they abandoned their center? Did they create a new thing altogether, or did they cling to old...
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An Interview with Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee is the first winner of our Emerging Writer’s Contest. His story, “The Gospel of Blackbird,” appears in the current Alice Hoffman issue, and he is also one of our new guest bloggers. We sat...
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Which a Minute Will Reverse
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” I didn’t do a lot of revision before...
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Blurbese: “haunting”
In his new regular column, our blog book reviews editor Andrew Ladd looks at “blurbese,” the contemporary language of book reviews, and names its most egregious offenders. What is it about book critics...
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An Interview with Hala Salah Eldin Hussein
The mixing pot, symbol of the Albawtaka Review I’m delighted to devote this week’s blog post to someone who is taking a bold stand for literature. Three years ago, my agent forwarded me an e-mail from...
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Some Slam Poetry I’ve Enjoyed
The first time I heard slam poetry, I was 17. My high school literary magazine “Aporia” threw a coffee house event at the hippest place we knew of. One of the participants performed “Love” by Beau Sia....
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Writing a Winning Story
When Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph told me that I won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s contest, I felt elated and grateful. Finally! A top literary journal was publishing me. I had...
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Women In Trouble: Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick Yale University Press, September 2011 (Part of the “Jewish Lives” series of interpretative biography) 160 pages $25.00 In a new regular series,...
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What Rejection Means to Me
It took me awhile to understand that when a journal rejects your poem or short story, it isn’t an indictment of your character or a judgment of your ability as a writer; all they’re saying, really, is:...
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