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  • The Culture and Race Question

    The Culture and Race Question

    When you’re a writer of colour, or one who otherwise comes out of a non-normative culture, you have a special set of doubts when it comes to your work. Even right now, writing this blog entry, I wonder to myself, “Am I the right person to write about this? Do I really know the best…

  • Poet who didn’t know it

    I don’t think anything strikes as much fear into a prose writer’s heart as writing poetry. Seems funny, in a way.  You’re a writer, poetry is a form of writing, what’s the deal? They are just words. Nevertheless, signing up for a poetry course with Susan Musgrave last summer has been among the more nerve-wracking…