Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Poet and Teacher Kerrin McCadden

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 23, 2019

High School English: Balancing the Job with the Calling

High School English: Balancing the Job with the Calling

Nick Ripatrazone Profiles Teacher Tricia Ebarvia

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 18, 2019

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 9, 2019

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

Introducing a New Column by Nick Ripatrazone

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 27, 2019

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 13, 2019

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By Nick Ripatrazone | July 25, 2019

The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story

By Nick Ripatrazone | June 20, 2019

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 2, 2019

Is Line Editing a Lost Art?

Is Line Editing a Lost Art?

"A great teacher is a gift. A great line editor is a miracle."

By Nick Ripatrazone | February 6, 2019

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 2, 2018

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

Never Trust a Man Named 'Edward Drogo Mork'

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 13, 2018

Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

On Her Novel of Borders, Open Spaces, Closed Homes, and Family

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 5, 2018

The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation

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

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 27, 2018

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 20, 2018

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