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A Conversation with Ann de Forest Editor of the Anthology WAYS OF WALKING
Walking is counter to the things our culture values. We live in a society that values speed, efficiency, and the arrival more than the journey. Walking contradicts all those things.
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Discovering Your Genre: Prose, Poetry, or In Between
How does a writer who works in both poetry and prose, or on the cusp of both, decide which genre best expresses a particular subject? We, Ann de Forest and Amy Beth Sisson, are critique partners for poetry but we both write prose as well. In conversations about our experiences, we posed this question. Here, we explore some differences between the genres and offer experiments and exercises to help us – and other writers – decide.
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Revision and the Multi-Faceted Self
When revising, how can you shift your mind from the wildly creative to the place where you have empathy for the reader’s needs. What do the readers need to know, what might resonate with their experience, what will raise useful ideas and questions for them? When revising, I am striving to access deep empathy for the person interacting with my words.
Stuck in the Genteel
A certain kind of genteel racism became an evident pattern in my town Swarthmore’s local paper, The Swarthmorean.