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Truth Thomas’s “Bottle of Life”
(PHOTO: Melanie Henderson) Truth Thomas studied creative writing at Howard Unviersity with Dr. Tony Medina and E. Ethelbert Miller, and earned a M.F.A from New England College in 2008. It’s “…the...
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Putting It On The Line
(PHOTO: Stock Image) Editor’s note: Joseph Ross, a poet and guestblogger at Tidal Basin Review, asked me to write an essay on where I find hope. The essay below, which will also be posted on the Basin...
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After Arriving Home
(PHOTO: Alan King) Stonehouse These past ten days were inspiring. I shared space with some of the most gifted people, talking about the cloud language of poetry and how to make our lines sing. The...
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Review of Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s *Mule & Pear*
(IMAGE: New Issues) You’ve seen that movie or read the novel, the one where the ending blindsided you. The hero or heroine, for whom you rooted throughout the drama, was either captured or killed. Or...
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Rejoicing in the Church of Poetry
(PHOTO: Steven Pinker) I’m coming off a high after graduation last month. I finished the Stonecoast M.F.A. Low-Residency Program at the University of Southern Maine, a two-year journey I started for...
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Arts Advocates, Unite!
(PHOTO: Alan King) The D.C. Creative Writing Workshop’s writing club members who placed at the 2013 Parkmont Poetry Competition. In a previous post, I talked about why poetry matters. Now, with the...
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Blog Tour!
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner...
View ArticleConcerning Craft: Alan King and His Sources of Inspiration — Little Patuxent...
Big thanks to The Little Patuxent Review for inviting me to submit this guest blog post as part of their Concerning Craft series. When the impulse hits and the words come, I keep myself open for how...
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