Poetry readings present a variety of great opportunities to a diverse assortment of people.
Average Guys: Impress your bleeding-heart girlfriends!
Wannabe Poets: Get tips on how to darken your blacker-than-black wardrobe!
Angsty Teens: Jot down lines you like and use them to protest your parents!
Furthermore, people who are — no! — legitimately interested in the simple pleasures of [...]
I wanted to take a minute to recommend Brian Evenson. I’ve come to admire his writing because Evenson’s fiction is stripped of excessive narration. Evenson leaves out description of physical appearances of characters and settings of his stories. Evenson focuses on exploring how setting can effect the moral decisions that his characters make. Evenson was [...]
As you, my lovely little reader of DPGOnline, may already be aware, Drexel University publishes a quarterly literary magazine. Nothing big, y’know… just a little mag that’s been around for nearly 40 years, receives submissions from all over the world, and has an odd tendency to discover literary gems that find their way into places [...]
…Herta Müller!
A Romanian-born German, Müller, who suffered through the notorious reign of dictator Nicolae Caeucescu and the cruelties of an alcoholic father, draws upon her tumultuous life for inspiration in her acclaimed works.
She made her literary debut — to many a censor’s dismay — in 1982 with Niederungen, a collection of short stories. In the nearly [...]
Okay, you’ve done the hardest part already: you’ve gotten over your white elephant, conquered writer’s block, and finished a manuscript!
…Now what?
On October 17, 2009, Rosemont College (located in Rosemont, PA, at 1400 Montgomery Avenue) is hosting an all-day writer’s workshop. For a fee of $75 — okay, maybe not a drop in the bucket for [...]
Because as nifty as “aspiring writer” sounds, doesn’t “published author” roll just a tad more nicely off the tongue?
It’s up to you to make the transition. Sadly, I can’t wave a literary wand and transform your long suffering, coffee-stained manuscript into the masterwork that makes Ulysses look like child’s play. What I can do is point [...]
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