We Are Not Untouchable
I wanted this, something to make my words feel real. Something that told me I could make a life out of writing poems.
–KB Brookins
All posts filed under: On Failure
Beyond the Bradys: Poetry and the “Perfect” American Family
“I’m reminded that sometimes the poem comes after I’ve written what I think I need to say, when the will gives up, when the imagination takes over, allowing me to see a bit beyond my very limited perspective.”—Blas Falconer
Dear Diary: My Struggle with the Personal
“I don’t want to write about me. I want to write about the underpinnings of me, which might also be the underpinnings of you.”—Lauren Shapiro
Rip the Wires Out
“I wanted to find a way to write with and about heat in a warming world.” –Adam Dickinson
Failure as Negative Space
Our actions ripple out into the unforeseen and unintended.
–Christopher Kondrich
On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open
“There was an inner story that I didn’t yet understand, and the publication problem served mainly as a distraction from it.”
—On Failure, by Nadia Colburn
Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems
First I thought Stet would fail to be a book, and now . . . it has failed to fail.
Thirty-One Tiny Failures and One Labyrinth: On Parenting and Writing
by Oliver de la Paz | Contributing Writer
Failures are special because they belong to us.
by Traci Brimhall
It is no small thing to discover fresh words for old wounds.
by Geffrey Davis