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Adriana Páramo’s “My Mother’s Funeral” awarded 2015 Whirling Prize

Adriana Páramo’s “My Mother’s Funeral” awarded 2015 Whirling Prize

“The memoir My Mother’s Funeral by Adriana Páramo and the poetry collection Sad Math by Sarah Freligh are winners of the latest contest, which invited writers across the nation to submit examples of the Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age, literary genre.”... Read More
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Going Places #5 by Randy Smit

Going Places #5 by Randy Smit

About Going Places:Welcome to an experiment in documentary writing.  Randy Smit is director of Compassionate Connection, an organization offering pathways of practice to greater empathy and creativity for all people.  This travelogue... Read More
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Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

"My mother in the kitchen a generation later: On Christmas Eve, she removes plastic-wrapped shrimp cocktail and clams garnished with packets of lemon juice. She takes a slab of baked... Read More
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Julianna Baggott interviews Robin Silbergleid about "The Baby Book"

Julianna Baggott interviews Robin Silbergleid about "The Baby Book"

“I will confess that this process was much harder with The Baby Book than with other projects, mostly because of its emotional and autobiographical content.  That was a useful reminder for me... Read More
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Baron Wormser’s “The Irony and the Ecstasy: On the Nature of Poetry”

Baron Wormser’s “The Irony and the Ecstasy: On the Nature of Poetry”

Check out Baron Wormser’s lecture, part of Sundog Poetry Center’s Poets & Their Craft series. Vermont PBS is currently making a series of the lectures and sit down interviews with the featured poets.... Read More
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Literary magazines that focus on disabled culture and literature

Literary magazines that focus on disabled culture and literature

This post is part of our series in honor of ADA Awareness Month.  While on a national level the focus is disability employment awareness, CKP is focusing on artists. Pentimento  Journal... Read More
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“Disability and Poetry: An Exchange” from The Poetry Foundation

“Disability and Poetry: An Exchange” from The Poetry Foundation

This post is part of our series in honor of ADA Awareness Month.  While on a national level the focus is disability employment awareness, CKP is focusing on artists. Maybe you... Read More
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Southern Literary Review interviews Sarah Bracey White

Southern Literary Review interviews Sarah Bracey White

"When the Jim Crow South welcomed Sarah Bracey White with a hard slap, the plucky if bewildered young girl found her power in books and, later, in writing. Here’s an... Read More
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Sapling interviews Starr Troup

Sapling interviews Starr Troup

Last month, Sapling, a weekly newsletter from Black Lawrence Press that highlights the best of the small press world for writers looking for new venues for their work, interviewed our Managing Editor, Starr... Read More
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