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158 pieces
When Everything Is Nothing
Tracking the Muse
Movement and Conversion
Perpetual Beginning
Whose Story, Whose Skin
The Story as Window
Write It Down—Now
Some Notes on the Gazer Within
A Reading by Camille T. Dungy
Artist’s Statement
Awake in Discomfort
What’s Essential About All This Stuff
Everyone’s a Poet
Tracking the Muse
Reasons to Write
Translation and Transgression
Traveling Light: From Photography to Poetry
A Note on ‘Delaware & Raritan. 1850.’
A Studio Glimpse: The Wilds
Smoke and Water
Manuscipt Variations: ‘Winter Stars’
Mountain Lake and the Collaborative Spirit
From this blue born
Artist’s Statement
Documenting Landscapes
Tracking the Muse
Tapping into Roots
Arrow
Self-Portrait With Michelangelo
My Teachers
Playwright’s Notes
Strings
“Strings” Slideshow
Ancestral and Maternal Connection as Creative Forces
Real Bananas and MoonPie
Block by Block, Line by Line
Tracking the Muse
Lining My Nest
Sites of Exchange
Wading into the Stream
On 'Two Women' and Process
Unequivocal Painting: The Watercolors of Javier Tapia
Fugitive Materials
A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet by Michele Poulos
from Our Secret Life in the Movies
A Different Kind of Telling
Chapbook Omnibus Review
The Prosthetics of Joy: Artist’s Introduction
“Making The Prosthetics of Joy,” George Ferrandi
“Performing The Prosthetics of Joy,” George Ferrandi
“A Conversation with Ramona Ausubel”
First Novelist Reading Loop Introduction
“Cabell First Novelist Award Panel Discussion”
“A Conversation with Kevin Powers”
“A Conversation with Tom Sleigh”
Where Poems Come From
What is it about singing?
Dedication through Destruction: Thoughts on Writing Practice
The Poem as Balm
Tracking the Muse
Ordinary Eros
Found Objects
The Wine-Dark Sea (I)
“A Conversation with Kristen Radtke”
Self-Portrait as a List from ‘My Favorite Mistakes’
“A Reading by Katherine Larson”
Bend as Would a God
A Conversation with Brian Bouldrey and John Bresland
Entrance and Exit
Under Skins
The Art of Storytelling
“Tracking the Muse”
Poetry as Surpassed Nature
To Failure
Windows and Walls
A Man Writes ‘Human’ and is Not Punished
An Interview with Sarah Vap
Debts and Debtors: An Interview with R.H.W. Dillard
Art & Artifice, Howard Risatti & Steven Glass
from Unseen Character
Unseen Character Suite Introduction
A Conversation with Nick Lantz, Nick Lantz
Introduction to Taurus
Not-Autobiography, Brittany Cavallaro
Nursing Art, Julie Hensley
Flights Out, Flights In, Jenny Johnson
Five Notes on the Infallible, Eve Jones
Me and My Books, Hanging Out, Chris Leo
Messages in a Bottle: Notes of an Unlikely Curator
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Reading by Deb Olin Unferth
Missteps
A Conversation with Jessica Lang
Introducing Jessica Lang & Lines Squared
from Housepainters, Deb Olin Unferth & Scott Bateman
Mangoes
On the Origin of the Video Essay
Playwright's Notes, Full Plate Collection Introduction
Alice Coltrane Discovers the World G/god is B/born
Some Notes On The Gazer Within
Oskar's Cars
Brainstrips: A Note on Process
Because Everyone Needs A Little Thanatos, Anna Journey
Three Parts Make a Hole
Part of the Process, Sandra Beasley
Notes Toward a Nonexistent Poet, Jehanne Dubrow
I Have No Explanation for the Horse, Terry Gibson
Tracking The Muse
The Myth of the Muse, Miroslav Penkov
A Conversation with Margrét Blöndal
Introduction: A Conversation with Margrét Blöndal
Guns, Tea, and Eating Chicken, Kathy Davis
The Unreliable Prism, Adam Day
Scratchings, Anne Germanacos
Introductions: A Reading Loop | Tracking The Muse
Exploiting My Own Material, Richard Jespers
Shigeo Kawashima, Michael Lease | Curve Video
Laura Lark | Aura
Spring Poem
Ben Jones | Acknowledgments
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Sally Bowring, February 1, 2005
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Rick Barot, April 1, 2004
Going Out Into the Crazy
Chris Burnside: A Retrospective
Under the F & G
Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art
Radically Local
David and Michael Beasley, Blackbird
Blackbird Feature, Sheila Pepe's Under the F & G, a Film by David and Michael Beasley, Blackbird
The Self-Portrait Project
Artist's Statement
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Myron Helfgott, February 28, 2003
Miniature Man
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Video
Flight Song, Introduction
Blackbird Feature, Richard Carlyon, September 1, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002