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Nick Ripatrazone

Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone is the author of several books of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He is a staff writer for The Millions, and has also written for Esquire, The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Commonweal, and National Public Radio.


Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”
August 20, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.
August 13, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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InterLibrary Loan Will
Change Your Life

Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
the Apex of Human Civilization
August 7, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Got Writer’s Block?
Read This Poem

Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."
July 25, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter
June 20, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”
April 2, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Is Line Editing a Lost Art?

"A great teacher is a gift. A great line editor is a miracle."
February 6, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget
November 2, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

Never Trust a Man Named 'Edward Drogo Mork'
September 13, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

On Her Novel of Borders, Open Spaces, Closed Homes, and Family
September 5, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation

From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney, on the Correspondence
of Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn
July 27, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next
July 20, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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On the Sleepless Lives of Writers

Insomnia: Source of Suffering or Creativity?
June 26, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Donald Hall: Poet of Eagle Pond Farm

When a Writer is Inextricably Linked to Place
June 25, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The 1961 Novel That Makes a Great Case for Moviegoing

On Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
June 14, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Sometimes the Best Way to Read is to Mark Up the Book

On the Revelatory Power of Annotations
April 23, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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At the Edge of the Woods: Why Writers Need Wilderness

The Forest is Full of Stories
April 11, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Young Writers Need to Believe Their Stories Matter

Nick Ripatrazone on the Power of Praise
March 26, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Jamie Quatro: How Should a Christian Writer Be?

The author of Fire Sermon on God, sex, and Evangelical America.
January 9, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running

Runner is a Classic, Unsung Piece of Mid-Century Filmmaking
December 14, 2017  By Nick Ripatrazone
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