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Tate Street Podcast
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NCSU MFA Program Director and poet, Dorianne Laux and John Kessell, a member of the fiction faculty, pull back the curtain to the admissions process for the program at NC State and give us insight into the landscape of emerging writers today. [Read More]
Three-Sentence Reviews
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Originally published in 1985, this collection by late poet Larry Levis deserves a fresh look right here right now: Reading Levis’ Winter Stars is such a consistently [Read More]
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Seamus Heaney brings his skill of translation to the ancient Greek tragedy, “Antigone,” first written by dramatist Sophocles in the 4th century BC. Farrar, [Read More]
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Hello, novelists! How did your writing go this week? Did it seem like the hours were flying by as you worked? Or did each minute drag on and on in front of the blank page? Today, as you’ve likely guessed, we’ll continue our exploration of technique in novel writing with a discussion of time. Not, for once, the time you devote to your [Read More]
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Elly Bookman in The New Yorker
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A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)
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So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore)
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Best Of TSHS
The Artists’ Predicament
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Islam, Hopkins
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Johnson, Owen
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In The Margins E14: Small, the Next Big
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Hopkins, Dickinson
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In The Margins E13: We do it for Love, Sonnets from Tate Street and the Favorite Poem Project
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Turner, Wyatt
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In The Margins E12: Writing out of Silence
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Browning, Keats
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In The Margins E11: Cowboys & Poets & Writers
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Jonson and Tagore
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In The Margins E10: Poetry, a Lifestyle Choice
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Wheatley, Carroll
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In The Margins E9: Sound Like Yourself: An Interview with Graywolf Press
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Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poems: Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, Martí
Favorite Poem Project
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Jill Bialosky, Hayan Charara, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, and Oliver de la Paz read for the Favorite Poem Project at AWP. [Read More]
Three-Sentence Reviews
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A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)
July 22, 2017
The plot of John Williams’ 1965 novel, Stoner (NYRB Classics, 2006): Young man becomes assistant professor at University of Missouri, lives unhappy life, has undistinguished career, dies. You can hardly be blamed if you don’t find this particularly enticing, but make no mistake: Stoner (last name of the protagonist—sorry to disappoint) is a work of almost unbearable beauty. [Read More]
Tweeted Writing Prompts
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This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (September 28- October 4)
October 4, 2015
Each day, we tweet fiction and poetry writing prompts to help writers loosen up and let loose. Get started with the prompts below! Follow us on twitter (@tatestreetorg) to [Read More]