by Kevin Spenst | Sep 18, 2010 | grad school at UBC, poetry, writing advice
Round-two of my MFA in Creative Writing is underway and I’m once again lucky enough to be surrounded by a host of superlatively talented people. As part of a new series of posts at Poetic Edits, I’m pleased to introduce one of them to you. Melissa...
by Kevin Spenst | Jul 25, 2010 | writing advice
If you’re in the habit of producing tiny fragments of writing about your own life, you might want to check out memoirsink, where they’re asking for 144 character “fragmoirs”, fragments of memoir writing.
by Kevin Spenst | Jul 22, 2010 | poetry, writing advice
In the chaos of scrambling for a summer job, I’ve sorely neglected this site. This past week, I’ve finally gotten back to writing my poem-a-day at twitter. What I love most about twitter is that fact that you have to compress and condense ideas, which...
by Kevin Spenst | Jun 13, 2010 | poetry, writing advice
There’s a panoply of writing contests just around the corner, so if you’re in need of motivation, you have two to three weeks to dust off that poem or rework a short-story you’ve been banging away at. If your poetry is in the experimental vein, you...
by Kevin Spenst | Apr 24, 2010 | poetry, writing advice
I recently picked up Roo Borson’s Personal History, a beautiful collection of essays about poetry and art. One of the pleasure’s of this book is Borson’s knack for gorgeously phrasing powerful ideas. For instance: And there is nourishment in the...
by Kevin Spenst | Apr 10, 2010 | poetry, writing advice
Truth be told, I’m torn about today’s entry. I want to share with you one of the most amazing thinkers on the topic of poetry in our age, but part of me wants to keep her for myself. I’ve always been a little selfish; a scene that comes to mind...