September 2008 
An Interview with Carol Anshaw
Jeanie Chung
I came up through journalism, so I was used to deadlines. But there were a few tricks I picked up from the kids' books. The publisher wanted a suspenseful ending to each chapter. And so okay, I put in suspenseful endings.
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The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs
Brian Baldi
...the greater the conceptual distance between two freshly affiliated stylistic choices, the more tension is created, and the greater the propulsion.
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The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction
Sue William Silverman
The genre of creative nonfiction is a long river with many moods and currents. And even though it traverses waterscapes as diverse as the Mississippi, the Amazon, and the Nile, there are seven basic forms-or ports of call, if you will-which we might explore.
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Angelic Orders: The Work of Ralph Angel
Jack Myers
An even larger aspect of this feature of obliqueness can be grasped in the sculptural, gestalt quality of Angel's poems. They feel composed of felt-space and the silences of alienation that are threaded throughout by a carefully selected, inward-radiating array of imagery that expresses the speaker's desire for connectedness.
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Narrative & Poetry
Natasha Sajé
The web of assumptions that a culture deems normal is so embedded in the social fabric that it can be very hard-and extremely slow-to change. For instance, a culture that assumes the dominance of the white race considers it the default, while dark skin is noteworthy; male dominance is assumed in the default use of male pronouns.
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On Poetry, Politics, & Publishing: A Conversation with Martin Espada
Bruce Allen Dick & Andres Fisher
The son of a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, MartÃn Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1957. Besides practicing law, he has worked as a radio correspondent in Nicaragua, an advocate for the mentally ill, a clerk in a hotel for transients, a groundskeeper in a baseball park, and a bouncer in a bar. His work-related experiences, in particular those as a legal services lawyer and as an advocate for the poor, often inspire his poetry.
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The Language of the Spirit: An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders
Tom Montgomery Fate
The tradition of the American essay includes a handful of esteemed writers such as E.B. White, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard. Scott Russell Sanders, a long-time English professor at Indiana University, and the author of over twenty books, would also seem to warrant membership in this inner circle—one of the few masters of the personal essay.
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