Notes on Contributors The Colrain Poetry Manuscript program The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Intensive is a one-of-a-kind, total immersion weekend designed for poets with book-length manuscripts looking for a publisher. The Intensive is small (6-8), and poets work closely with either Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press) or Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books) along with founder Joan Houlihan. The [...]

Notes on Contributors Poet-bashing police Former poet laureate Robert Hass and his wife Brenda Hillman were hit with batons during a peaceful demonstration at Berkeley the other day. Hass wrote about it in an op ed column in Sunday’s New York Times—if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth reading. Hass gives a close-up and personal [...]

Notes on Contributors A wonderful surprise in my creative writing class This is the time of year for high school teachers to write college recommendations, and since four of my classes are senior classes, there are plenty to write.  This isn’t a complaint, but I am a procrastinator and they pile up, until one day, I sit and [...]