Ten Writing Prompts
Photo courtesy of Lucy Ives. Novelist and critic Lucy Ives began compiling writing prompts, sometimes spontaneously in the classes she…
The Making of Poetry: Jana Prikryl on “Dover Calais”
English Channel. Photo by Markus Trienke, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. For our Poetry Making series, we…
Two Women, Three Guns: About Hedda Gabler and Anna Christie
Ghostly light in a dark theater. Photo by Jon Ellwood, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. During a…
Bill Buckley’s “Art of Fiction”
William F. Buckley Jr., 1954. Los Angeles Daily News. CC BY 4.0. via Wikimedia Commons Of all the writers whose…
A Big Empty Cup of Attention
Every month, we search dozens of soon-to-be-published books, to get great ideas and writing for Overview’site. Often we are surprised…
Thirteen Waters: Tasting Notes from a Sommelier
All photographs courtesy of the author. My water journey began on the airplane, when I recognized a bottle of Elisabethen…
“Gaza—stadium of souls” and Other Poems
NIGHT (AFTER ASIMOV AND EMERSON) (4)2017, CYANOTYPE EXPOSED TO STARLIGHT ON A FOUND BOOK PAGE, 9 1/10 X 5 9/10…
Happy New Year
Fireworks in Eberhardzell, 2018. Photo by Andreas Weith. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I met…
The Making of Poetry: Millicent Borges Accardi on “Good Tank Farms”
Tetney Tank Farm: air 2025 (2) by Simon Tomson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. For our Poetry Making series,…
Eve Babitz’s photo
Hollywood, California. Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library. In 1969, five years before Eve Babitz published her first book, Hollywood…