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REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CRAFT ESSAYS

An Interview with Kathryn Kulpa, author of COOKING TIPS FOR THE DEMON-HAUNTED by Jessica Klimesh

An Interview with Kathryn Kulpa, author of COOKING TIPS FOR THE DEMON-HAUNTEDby Jessica Klimesh I recently had the delightful opportunity to interview Kathryn Kulpa about her latest chapbook Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted, winner of ...
September 16, 2023

SHY, a novel by Max Porter, reviewed by Alex Behm

SHYby Max PorterGraywolf Press, 136 pagesreviewed by Alex Behm Ā  Max Porter, previously nominated for the Man Booker Prize among other awards, has just published a fourth novel, Shy. The title character, Shy, is an ...
August 30, 2023

AN INTERVIEW WITH RUTH MADIEVSKY, AUTHOR OF ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY byĀ Simona Zaretsky

AN INTERVIEW WITH RUTH MADIEVSKY, AUTHOR OF ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY by Simona Zaretsky Ruth Madievsky’s novel, All-Night Pharmacy from (Penguin Random House, 2023) is a gorgeous and dark exploration of sisterhood, sexuality, and traumas inherited and ...
August 23, 2023

Two Takes on LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO, stories by Cleo Qian: Lillian Lowenthal and Audrey Lai

One New Book, Two ReviewsLET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GOby Cleo QianTin House Books, 246 pages Cleaver's internship program offers the opportunity to review a new book from a small or indie press under the ...
August 22, 2023

MYSTERY, MISCARRIAGE & MENDING by Kelly DuMar

Kelly DuMarĀ MYSTERY, MISCARRIAGE & MENDING: How Epistolary Erasure Poetry Threads Old Letters with New Narratives We crave it, but we never get the whole story about our family of origin. How our parents came to ...
August 14, 2023

Navigating Back: Stargazing and the Threat of AI, a Craft Essay by Scott Hurd

Scott Hurd Navigating Back: Stargazing and the Threat of AI As I contemplate a changing creative landscape since the unleashing of generative AI, I can’t help but think back to grade school math. I had ...
July 31, 2023
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PACHELBEL’S CONUNDRUM, A Writing Tip from Micah Muldowney

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POETRY AS MEDITATION, A Writing Tip from Leonard Kress

September 11, 2023

LISTEN BEFORE YOU WRITE, A Writing Tip from Moriah Hampton

September 3, 2023

DON’T FEAR THE WACKY STUFF, A Writing Tip from Andrea Marcusa

August 28, 2023

CRAFT CHAT: Andrea Caswell speaks with Brendan Stephens on “Hell’s Mountain”

August 22, 2023

WRITE LESS, READ MORE, A Writing Tip from Jessica Klimesh

August 16, 2023

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