When the world went into hiding, and the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation, I found myself unemployed, planning a move across the country, and itching for human connection. All of a sudden there was entirely too much time and no bars, no restaurants, no movie theaters, no concerts or anything… Continue reading…
What I have on the nightstand beside my bed began as a book stack and has now quickly become a book tower. On a plastic storage bin nearby is what you might call a book pile – spread out and messier. It’s about a month into the new school year… Continue reading…
Perhaps influenced by the sometimes-apocalyptic news it is not always easy to simply settle down to read—never mind writing! But so it goes and there is no rest for the wicked, or worse yet, writers and book worms. As a now editor of The Greensboro Review, and second year student… Continue reading…
I’m sharing these books because I think they are very good, and I hope you will pick up at least one of them. That said, I want to acknowledge that the entire list is much heavier fare than what usually fills up my reading pile. I’ll also note that the… Continue reading…
It’s the first day of summer! This has been a great year so far for Greensboro faculty and alums, so be sure to check out the University Communications reading recommendations among books published in 2019: https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/summer-reading-books-faculty-alumni/
Stuart Dischell, poetry faculty at UNC Greensboro, has a new Look2 Essay in the summer issue of Ploughshares. Read his tribute to friend and poet Thomas Lux: https://www.pshares.org/issues/summer-2018/greatness-thomas-lux-look2-essay
Emilia Phillips, assistant professor in the UNCG MFA Writing Program, writes about bewilderment in relationship to poetry over at Ploughshares: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/the-poetics-of-bewilderment/
