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“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 Article“Cut Down the Quotes . . . Include Only Gemlike Phrases”
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“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...
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“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...
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Just Listen, Really Listen
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When You’re Interviewing, You’re the One in Charge
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Every piece of writing should express or represent
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I 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 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.”...
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Inspiration Is Everywhere
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“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 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...
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Listen 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“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...
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“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 ArticleAbout 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...
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