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Craft Essays

Long-form essays on craft — endings, beginnings, revision, voice, and tradition.

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Endings Beginnings Revision Rhythm Imagery Voice Titling Line break Submission craft Tradition Reading as craft Other

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Voice

Finding your voice

An editorial look at voice not as a pose to adopt but as what accumulates when a writer pays sustained attention to a particular set of things over years.

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Voice

When form helps and when it gets in the way

An editorial reading of when received forms — sonnet, villanelle, ghazal, marsiya — earn their constraint, and when they cost more than they pay.

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