Lan Samantha Chang and David Haynes

Fiction Writers Lan Samantha Chang and David Haynes engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the formal qualities of novels, on revising novels vs.

Close friends for three decades, fiction writers Andrea Barrett and Margot Livesey talk about being each other’s trusted reader for works in progress,

Andrea Barrett and Margot Livesey

Lan Samantha Chang and David Haynes - MFA Program for Writers

Gaby and Oliver engage in a game of “20 Questions,” exploring each other’s poetic practices, cross-referencing it, with the useful actualities and

Oliver Baez Bendorf and Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Debra Spark’s essay, “Raiding the Larder: Research in Fact-Based Fiction” (originally a July 2013 residency lecture) provides a starting point for

Anthony Doerr, Dominic Smith and Debra Spark

This conversation between poets Sally Keith and James Longenbach on leaps and disjunctiveness also encompasses a look into both poets’ development and

Sally Keith and James Longenbach

Fiction Writers Lan Samantha Chang and David Haynes engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the formal qualities of novels, on revising novels vs.

Lan Samantha Chang and David Haynes

Marianne Boruch and Mary Szybist - MFA Program for Writers

This discussion of the structure and progression of Brigit Kelly’s long poem, “Three Cows and the Moon,” opens with Kelly’s own reading of the work,

Marianne Boruch and Mary Szybist

Haynes, David Archives - MFA Program for Writers

Poets Jennifer Grotz and Brooks Haxton discuss their mentors—Adam Zagajewski and Hayden Carruth, respectively—as well as their work as translators,

Jennifer Grotz and Brooks Haxton

Samantha Haynes's Instagram, Twitter & Facebook on IDCrawl

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