Open Space Archive

2019

Fiction, Interview, Nonfiction | Rory Spearing
Diane Allerdyce discusses her Story "The Gift"

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Paige Towers
On “The Sound of Undoing”

 

Poetry | John Sibley Williams
Echolocation

 

Poetry | Owen McLeod
A Sonnet On My Birthday

 

No Genre | Ed Folsom
Every Atom | No. 200

 

No Genre | Shane McCrae
Every Atom | No. 199

 

No Genre | David Lehman
Every Atom | No. 198

 

No Genre | Bessy Reyna
Every Atom | No. 197

 

No Genre | Paul Berman
Every Atom | No. 196

 

No Genre | Al Filreis
Every Atom | No. 195

 

No Genre | Michael Puttonen
Every Atom | No. 194

 

Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry | Theodora Ziolkowski
"I Wore my Anger Like a Shroud:" On Poetry, Art, and Shielding the Self

 

No Genre | Ann Fisher-Wirth
Every Atom | No. 193

 

No Genre | J. D. Schraffenberger
Every Atom | No. 192

 

No Genre | Brian Brennan
Every Atom | No. 191

 

No Genre | Michael Robertson
Every Atom | No. 190

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Gayla Marty
On "Now You're Cooking with Gas"

 

No Genre | Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Every Atom | No. 189

 

No Genre | Maxine Chernoff
Every Atom | No. 188

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Filiz Turhan
On writing "Suzy Wong: A Fragment of a Dream"

 

No Genre | Morton Schoolman
Every Atom | No. 187

 

No Genre | Sean Ross Meehan
Every Atom | No. 186

 

No Genre | John Marsh
Every Atom | No. 185

 

No Genre | Sharbari Ahmed
Every Atom | No. 184

 

No Genre | Karen Romano Young
Every Atom | No. 183

 

No Genre | Tahseen Al-Khateeb
Every Atom | No. 182

 

No Genre | Katie Ford
Every Atom | No. 181

 

No Genre | Richard Deming
Every Atom | No. 180

 

No Genre | Sascha Pöhlmann
Every Atom | No. 179

 

No Genre | Christine Gerhardt
Every Atom | No. 178

 

No Genre | Stephanie M. Blalock
Every Atom | No. 177

 

Review | Rachel Morgan
Fall Book Reviews

 

No Genre | Jonathan Silverman and Meghan Sweeney
Every Atom | No. 176

 

No Genre | Taylor Brorby
Every Atom | No. 175

 

No Genre | Jesse Lee Kercheval
Every Atom | No. 174

 

Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry | John Guzlowski
Transcribing Notes for Poems While Waiting for the FedEx Guy

 

No Genre | Stefan Schöberlein
Every Atom | No. 173

 

No Genre | Hector Tobar
Every Atom | No. 172

 

No Genre | Micah Bateman
Every Atom | No. 171

 

No Genre | Jimmie Killingsworth
Every Atom | No. 170

 

No Genre | Marie Howe
Every Atom | No. 169

 

Craft, Fiction, Nonfiction | Ted Morrissey
On "First Kings"

 

No Genre | Lauren Camp
Every Atom | No. 168

 

No Genre | Jeffrey Davis
Every Atom | No. 167

 

Poetry | Jason Tandon
Coyote

 

No Genre | Joe Klemczewski
Every Atom | No. 166

 

No Genre | Rhonda Morgan
Every Atom | No. 165

 

No Genre | Elisabeth Frost
Every Atom | No. 164

 

No Genre | Sarah Raskin
Every Atom | No. 163

 

No Genre | Sena Jeter Naslund
Every Atom | No. 162

 

No Genre | Edward Hagan
Every Atom | No. 161

 

No Genre | Michael Hinds
Every Atom | No. 160

 

No Genre | Milton Kessler (1930-2000)
Every Atom | No. 159

 

No Genre | Jim Daniels
Every Atom | No. 158

 

No Genre | Charles Bernstein
Every Atom | No. 157

 

No Genre | Piotr Gwiazda
Every Atom | No. 156

 

No Genre | Brian Pals
Every Atom | No. 155

 

Nonfiction | Erin Murphy
Midterm

 

No Genre | Michel Delville and Elisabeth Waltregny
Every Atom | No. 153

 

No Genre | Matt Cohen
Every Atom | No. 153

 

Fiction | Jennifer Anne Moses
You Were the One

 

No Genre | Jennifer Crandall
Every Atom | No. 152

 

No Genre | H. Paul Moon
Every Atom | No. 151

 

No Genre | B. A. Van Sise
Every Atom | No. 150

 

No Genre | Dean Rader
Every Atom | No. 149

 

No Genre | Ruth Bohan
Every Atom | No. 148

 

No Genre | Marika Brussel
Every Atom | No. 147

 

No Genre | Cynthia Wachtell
Every Atom | No. 146

 

Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry | Alice Friman
On "The Singer"

 

No Genre | Sarah Cahill
Every Atom | No. 145

 

No Genre | Lauren Gunderson
Every Atom | No. 144

 

No Genre | Donald Steven Olson
Every Atom | No. 143

 

No Genre | Karin Coonrod
Every Atom | No. 142

 

No Genre | Marilyn Nelson
Every Atom | No. 141

 

Craft, Fiction, Nonfiction | Theodore Carter
Art, Literature, and Positive Neurotic Behavior

 

No Genre | Arthur Vogelsang
Every Atom | No. 140

 

No Genre | Cecilia Woloch
Every Atom | No. 139

 

Poetry | Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Witch Loves Architect

 

No Genre | Maxine Hong Kingston
Every Atom | No. 137

 

No Genre | Michael Cunningham
Every Atom | No. 136

 

No Genre | Bradley Paul
Every Atom | No. 135

 

No Genre | Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Every Atom | No. 134

 

Poetry | Sandy Longhorn
Centerfold, ca. 2018

 

No Genre | Tana Wojczuk
Every Atom | No. 133

 

No Genre | Eileen Tabios
Every Atom | No. 132

 

Nonfiction, Poetry | Michael White
The Resurgent Sonnet

 

No Genre | Philip Metres
Every Atom | No. 131

 

No Genre | Todd Gitlin
Every Atom | No. 130

 

No Genre | Elizabeth Ketelle
Every Atom | No. 129

 

No Genre | CAConrad
Every Atom | No. 128

 

No Genre | David Haven Blake
Every Atom | No. 127

 

No Genre | Travis Helms
Every Atom | No. 126

 

Poetry | Marilyn Kallet
Travelogue from the River of Lethe

 

No Genre | Earl S. Braggs
Every Atom | No. 125

 

Poetry | Daniel Uncapher
Collecting Hubert Creekmore

 

No Genre | Alfred Corn
Every Atom | No. 124

 

No Genre | Denise Duhamel
Every Atom | No. 123

 

No Genre | Martin Buinicki
Every Atom | No. 122

 

No Genre | Betsy Erkkilä
Every Atom | No. 121

 

No Genre | Alexandra Teague
Every Atom | No. 120

 

No Genre | Mark Doty
Every Atom | No. 119

 

No Genre | Jay Parini
Every Atom | No. 118

 

Craft, Fiction, Nonfiction | Jody Hobbs Hesler
Narrative Tension: The Promises Writers Make

 

No Genre | Anthony Hunt
Every Atom | No. 117

 

No Genre | Marilyn Chin
Every Atom | No. 116

 

No Genre | Brenda Hillman
Every Atom | No. 115

 

No Genre | Mary Jo Bang
Every Atom | No. 114

 

Fiction | Lauren Marie Schmidt
An Octopus a Day

 

No Genre | Peter Riley
Every Atom | No. 113

 

Nonfiction | Andrew Jones
Recipe for Reloading

 

No Genre | Eileen McGinnis
Every Atom | No. 112

 

No Genre | Samuel Otter
Every Atom | No. 111

 

Craft, Nonfiction | Nina Barragan
When Fiction Becomes Memory

 

No Genre | Brian Thiem
Every Atom | No. 110

 

No Genre | Nick Flynn
Every Atom | No. 109

 

No Genre | Mark Favale
Every Atom | No. 108

 

No Genre | Holly M. Wendt
Every Atom | No. 107

 

Poetry | Dylan Loring
The Reviewer

 

No Genre | Nancy Kuhl
Every Atom | No. 106

 

No Genre | Barbara Bair
Every Atom | No. 105

 

No Genre | Elizabeth Cohen
Every Atom | No. 104

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Rosalind Buckton-Tucker
Stories Among the Sheep: Collaborative Creativity

 

No Genre | Joshua Brand
Every Atom | No. 103

 

No Genre | Catherine Waitinas
Every Atom | No. 102

 

No Genre | Dana Phillips
Every Atom | No. 101

 

No Genre | E. Ethelbert Miller
Every Atom | No. 100

 

No Genre | Beth Jensen
Every Atom | No. 99

 

Craft, Fiction, Nonfiction | Emily Wortman-Wunder
Resonant Frequencies: The Power of Information in Fiction

 

No Genre | Joe Bruchac
Every Atom | No. 98

 

No Genre | Rebecca Morgan Frank
Every Atom | No. 97

 

Nonfiction | Marcus A. Hennessy
Bobby’s Hair: A Personal Essay

 

No Genre | Ellen Bass
Every Atom | No. 96

 

No Genre | Tyler Hoffman
Every Atom | No. 95

 

No Genre | Jean Huets
Every Atom | No. 94

 

No Genre | Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Every Atom | No. 93

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Adrienne Lamberti
Arrival at Destination: Editing as a Professional GPS

 

No Genre | Erica Jong
Every Atom | No. 92

 

No Genre | Maire Mullins
Every Atom | No. 91

 

No Genre | Rachel Morgan
Every Atom | No. 90

 

No Genre | Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Every Atom | No. 89

 

No Genre | Afaa Michael Weaver
Every Atom | No. 88

 

No Genre | Allen Crawford
Every Atom | No. 87

 

No Genre | Robert Schultz
Every Atom | No. 86

 

No Genre | Marvin Bell
Every Atom | No. 85

 

Nonfiction, Craft | N.T. McQueen
The Cure for the Terrible Disease

 

No Genre | Lewis Hyde
Every Atom | No. 84

 

No Genre | Diane Ackerman
Every Atom | No. 83

 

No Genre | Sholeh Wolpé
Every Atom | No. 81

 

No Genre | Ada Limón
Every Atom | No. 80

 

No Genre | Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Every Atom | No. 79

 

No Genre | Jason Stacy
Every Atom | No. 78

 

Fiction | Brendan Egan
The Burning of New London

 

No Genre | Michael Grabell
Every Atom | No. 77

 

Poetry | Philip Levine
Philip Levine in NAR: “The Rats”

 

No Genre | Matt Miller
Every Atom | No. 76

 

No Genre | Delphine Rumeau
Every Atom | No. 75

 

No Genre | Sean Thomas Dougherty
Every Atom | No. 74

 

No Genre | Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton
Every Atom | No. 73

 

No Genre | Sandra Beasley
Every Atom | No. 72

 

No Genre | David Kirby
Every Atom | No. 71

 

No Genre | Justin Martin
Every Atom | No. 70

 

No Genre | Martha Collins
Every Atom | No. 69

 

No Genre | Brandon R. Brown
Every Atom | No. 68

 

No Genre | Scott Russell Sanders
Every Atom | No. 67

 

No Genre | Sophfronia Scott
Every Atom | No. 66

 

No Genre | Edward Whitley
Every Atom | No. 65

 

No Genre | Evie Shockley
Every Atom | No. 64

 

No Genre | John E. Thiel
Every Atom | No. 63

 

No Genre | Kazim Ali
Every Atom | No. 62

 

No Genre | Kenneth Price
Every Atom | No. 61

 

Nonfiction, Poetry | Jeffrey Skinner
Permission to Be: Philip Levine at Columbia, 1978

 

No Genre | William Pannapacker
Every Atom | No. 60

 

No Genre | Colum McCann
Every Atom | No. 59

 

No Genre | Naomi Shihab Nye
Every Atom | No. 58

 

No Genre | John E. Seery
every atom | No. 57

 

No Genre | Amy Richter
Every Atom | No. 56

 

No Genre | Leslie Lindenauer
Every Atom | No. 55

 

No Genre | Ivy Wilson
Every Atom | No. 54

 

No Genre | LeAnne Howe
Every Atom | No. 53

 

No Genre | A. B. Westrick
Every Atom | No. 52

 

No Genre | Dale Smith
Every Atom | No. 51

 

No Genre | Marcia Chatelain
Every Atom | No. 50

 

No Genre | Susan Briante
Every Atom | No. 49

 

No Genre | Nikki Giovanni
Every Atom | No. 48

 

No Genre | Billy Collins
Every Atom | No. 47

 

No Genre | John Vernon
Every Atom | No. 46

 

No Genre | Sumita Chakraborty
Every Atom | No. 45

 

No Genre | Amanda Gailey
Every Atom | No. 44

 

No Genre | Annie Finch
Every Atom | No. 43

 

No Genre | Virgil Suárez
Every Atom | No. 42

 

No Genre | Kim Addonizio
Every Atom | No. 41

 

No Genre | Kevin Brockmeier
Every Atom | No. 40

 

No Genre | Liz Rosenberg
Every Atom | No. 39

 

No Genre | Robert Hass
Every Atom | No. 38

 

No Genre | Stephanie Burt
Every Atom | No. 37

 

No Genre | Heather McHugh
Every Atom | No. 36

 

No Genre | Dana Levin
Every Atom | No. 35

 

No Genre | Daniel Nester
Every Atom | No. 34

 

No Genre | Zack Turpin
Every Atom | No. 33

 

No Genre | Christopher Soto
Every Atom | No. 32

 

No Genre | Nina Murray
Every Atom | No. 31

 

No Genre | Byrne R. S. Fone
Every Atom | No. 30

 

No Genre | Gary Schmidgall
Every Atom | No. 29

 

No Genre | Paul Lauter
Every Atom | No. 28

 

No Genre | Gillian Conoley
Every Atom | No. 27

 

No Genre | William Heyen
Every Atom | No. 26

 

No Genre | Bill Koch
Every Atom | No. 25

 

No Genre | Mark Edmundson
Every Atom | No. 24

 

No Genre | Julia Alvarez
Every Atom | No. 23

 

No Genre | Hayan Charara
Every Atom | No. 22

 

No Genre | Matthew Zapruder
Every Atom | No. 21

 

No Genre | Lindsay Tuggle
Every Atom | No. 20

 

No Genre | Gary McDowell
Every Atom | No. 19

 

No Genre | Cynthia Shor
Every Atom | No. 18

 

No Genre | Maggie M. Cao
Every Atom | No. 17

 

No Genre | Bill McKibben
Every Atom | No.16

 

No Genre | Roy Morris Jr.
Every Atom | No. 15

 

No Genre | Jill McDonough
Every Atom | No. 14

 

No Genre | John A. Johnson
Every Atom | No. 13

 

No Genre | Richard Jackson
Every Atom | No. 12

 

No Genre | Jane Hirshfield
Every Atom | No. 11

 

No Genre | Christopher Merrill
Every Atom | No. 10

 

No Genre | Edward Hirsch
Every Atom | No. 9

 

No Genre | Lauren Haldeman
Every Atom | No. 8

 

No Genre | Camille Dungy
Every Atom | No. 7

 

No Genre | Martin Klammer
Every Atom | No. 6

 

No Genre | Ezra Greenspan
Every Atom | No. 5

 

No Genre | Rosanne Cash
Every Atom | No. 4

 

No Genre | Jody Williams
Every Atom | No. 3

 

No Genre | Jericho Brown
Every Atom | No. 2

 

No Genre | Martín Espada
Every Atom | No. 1

 

No Genre | Brian Clements
An Introduction

 

Nonfiction | David Ebenbach
Finding Your Good Food

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Patrick J. Murphy
The Making of "Inseparable"

 

Nonfiction, Poetry, Review | Daegan Miller
The Ballad or the Bullet

 

No Genre | Final Thursday Reading Series: Vince Gotera
Final Thursday Reading Series: Vince Gotera

 

Craft, Fiction, Nonfiction | Susan Swaney
Musically Styling Vonnegut

 

Nonfiction, Craft | April Darcy
Count to Five

 

No Genre | Final Thursday Reading Series: Patricia O'Donnell
Final Thursday Reading Series: Patricia O'Donnell

 

Poetry | Suzanne O'Connell
"German Translations" of Rilke

 

No Genre | Tina Kelley: On "Three Endings"
Tina Kelley: On "Three Endings"

 

Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry | Sarah Anderson
On Writing "Caught"

 

Nonfiction, Craft | Chris Johnson
On Transitions and Ellipses

 

Poetry | Stephen Haven
Old Boston Roads

 

News | 2019 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in Speculative Literature
Winners of the 2019 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in Speculative Literature

 

Nonfiction | by Natasha Sajé
The Performance of Taste (2010 - 2016)

 

No Genre | Alan Elyshevitz
On "Bread"

 

No Genre | Writing, No Writing: Cultivating the Emptiness of the Page
Writing, No Writing: Cultivating the Emptiness of the Page

 

No Genre | Gaby Garcia
The Poetry of Periods

 

No Genre | John Guzlowski
Me and World War I

 

No Genre | Steve Horowitz Reviews "Voices After Evelyn"
Steve Horowitz Reviews "Voices After Evelyn"

 

No Genre | Alison Prine
On Writing to Time and "Trace"

 

No Genre | Peter Neil Carroll
On Writing "Sanctuary"

 

No Genre | Dayna Patterson
On "Llama Berserk Syndrome"

 

No Genre | Natalie Sears
On "Waiting for Andy"

 

No Genre | Robert G. McBrearty
On "Cold Night in Waterloo"

 

No Genre | Peggy Schimmelman
The Trouble with Memoir

 

No Genre | Katie Prince
an ode to public transportation

 

No Genre | Carrie Shipers
On "My dead husband"

 

No Genre | Brittani Sonnenberg
The Mystery of Writerly Material

 

No Genre | Gary J. Whitehead
On "Horace, I Dream of Watches"

 

No Genre | by Susan Gilbert-Collins
Susan's Almanac Project

 

No Genre | by John Poch
About the Horse Crippler

 

No Genre | by David Koehn
A Lesson in Sound and Form

 

No Genre | by Natalie Solmer
On "The Florist Thinks"

 

No Genre | by Editor Rachel Morgan
From the Pages of NAR: Brief Book Reviews

 

No Genre | by Sean Towey
The In-Between

 

No Genre | by Sommer Schafer
On "Mary and the Machine"

 

No Genre | with Anne Myles
Final Thursday Reading Series

 

No Genre | by Conor Scruton
How to Read Narcissus Flowers

 

No Genre | by Geoffrey Babbitt
Same Difference

 

No Genre | by Marsha de la O
The Day I Was Protected

 

News | 2019 James Hearst Poetry Prize
Winners of the 2019 James Hearst Poetry Prize

 

No Genre | by Damon McLaughlin
So Many Steps Behind Her

 

No Genre | by Mary Frisbee
Robert Garner McBrearty on "Black Fin"

 

No Genre | Five Nonfiction Books to Read
Five Nonfiction Books to Read