which improves your poetry techniques. You will also develop thick skin which is needed to survive in any industry. Although rejection can be disheartening, it will only make publication taste ...

helped redefine modernist free-verse poetry. His short lines (unconventional at the time) and rejection of uppercase spelling pushed against the boundaries of language, while his sensual imagery ...

“Following each rejection, treat yourself to a night out ... He says that as a writer, working on a poem or story reconnects him to his personal power. “For some, it's working with their ...

She had started submitting poetry to journals at the age of 17, and receiving one rejection after another. By the time she arrived in South Africa, however, she had long given up. "I forgot that I ...

Salyer: In a different vein, you have a remarkable series of prose poems that imagine responses to rejection letters from poetry editors. It strikes me that these poems are often about insisting ...

Even under systems that are truly free, which at least nominally permit full and frank expression, you may still be reluctant ...

Poetry and music have long been the disciplines that have helped the narrator “undull” his senses to the miracle of being, and the novel’s tight focus elevates the emergency into a kind of ...

Yardena Schwartz's new book explores the 1929 Hebron massacre and its lasting impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ...

In "Ghosts of a Holy War," Yardena Schwartz explores an anti-Jewish pogrom in British Mandate Palestine and how it echoed ...

My grandmother encouraged me and I received my first rejection letter at age 12,” she laughed.