About the Art: Climate
This piece is part of the Climate notebook, which features art by Katrina Bello. A large drawing of willow bark that resembles cliffs and canyons. A drawing of bare treetops in the shape of a decaying...
View Article“Good Nonfiction Writing Is Also the Evocation of Subtext”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“It All Leads Back to Language”
In September, AAWW hosted a conversation between Deaf interpreters Romduol Ngov and Xgamil Campos-Espinosa, moderated by AAWW events and workshops coordinator t. tran le. Ngov and Campos-Espinosa...
View ArticleListen to My Hands
This past year, we collaborated with our wonderful partners at Pro Bono ASL to bring to our stage Deaf poets Crystal Martinez, Dominique Middlebrook, and April Scott, and Deaf interpreters Xgamil...
View Article“We Can Talk About This”
In August 2022, AAWW hosted a conversation about poetry including Deaf poet and Latina Sickle Cell Warrior Crystal Martinez. The video below includes excerpts from that conversation and covers topics...
View Article“Be Considerate When Telling Asian American Stories”
From a story about one of the last major newsstands in the West Village to pieces on the in-between spaces Asian Americans occupy across New York City, the 2022 Open City Fellowship cohort took on a...
View ArticleInspiration Is Everywhere
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“I Only Have Language and Silence”
In her second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press, September 2022), Jenny Xie poses the age-old question—“What is a poem?”—and offers an expansive answer: “Anything that continues.”...
View ArticleI Write Best While Having and After a Good Cry
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View ArticleEvery piece of writing should express or represent
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View ArticleWhen You’re Interviewing, You’re the One in Charge
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View ArticleJust Listen, Really Listen
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“No Other Way to Be a Writer Except to Be Alone in a Room”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“That Which You Are Afraid to Write, Write It”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“Cut Down the Quotes . . . Include Only Gemlike Phrases”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View Article“I Am Still Developing as a Writer”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View ArticleThe Filipino Are Plural
As a Filipino myself, I was quite elated about the publication of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines in March 2021 and grateful to its publisher, Jee Leong Koh of...
View Article“Write a Sentence—Any Sentence—No Matter How Bad It Is”
“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...
View ArticleSuperstition and Faith in a Queer World: A Conversation with SJ Sindu
SJ Sindu’s second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods (2021), follows a blue-skinned, black-blooded child-god narrator, Kalki, who is named after the tenth avatar of the Hindu god, Vishnu. Kalki’s father, Ayya,...
View Article“This Is Our Project”
The first time I heard Ibi Ibrahim’s voice, it was through a song. A friend had sent me a track by Kabreet, the electro pop duo that the Yemeni American artist forms one half of, and I had spent the...
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