Faith and Fiction: The Story Behind the Story (of a Story)
Sean Murphyi. True story: my sister, during her junior or senior year at Boston University, called to talk about what I didn't yet realize was a classic college cliché, disguised as…
National Poetry Month #5: Charles Bukowski’s Bounty
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #4: Charlie Parker’s Premonition
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #3: Intimation
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #2: To the ones that got away
Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty…
National Poetry Month #1: Shafi Hadi’s Silence
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn't to say…
Ozymandias in Atlantic City
Like virtually every aspect of all-things Trump, he (and the damage he's wrought) manages to be beyond satire, beyond fiction, and even the real time (fake news?) accounts strain credulity.…
VCLA PRESENTS: THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Question: What is the state of the publishing industry circa 2019? Answer: It’s complicated. So…how to get a handle on what’s going on, including what’s happened and what’s going to happen?…
SEAN MURPHY AND E. ETHELBERT MILLER: ON THE MARGIN AT WPFW 89.3
It was my considerable pleasure to have an extended chat with E. Ethelbert Miller last week on his weekly WPFW show "On the Margin." A bit more about Ethelbert, here. And…
Three Original Poems, published by Sequestrum Journal of Lit & Arts
Sequestrum, Issue 18 Of course you can, and sometimes should, judge a book (or, in this case, a literary magazine) by its cover. The latest issue of Sequestrum, a journal…