Links for Writers
Katherine Center blogs here about the publication day for her second book. It’s a sweet and candid look at the joy of waking up to know your book is on store shelves today. I haven’t read either of her books, but really enjoyed this post, mostly because it gives me hope. Maybe I’ll have a day like that someday. I don’t generally tell people who don’t know that it’s my birthday, but I’d definitely tell them that my book came out. How could you resist?
The Sunday New York Times ran a piece on “greatness” in poetry. Poems have been on my mind lately, though I haven’t written any in ages. I haven’t even been reading The Writer’s Almanac as faithfully as I used to. Still, I’m feeling drawn toward the power of metaphor in poetry, and the poet’s unique ability to turn a piece on a dime, 
making the metaphorical or logical or emotional leap that turns lines on a page into art.
The new issue of Poets & Writers arrived in my mailbox this weekend, and it looks like a good one. I’m especially looking forward to the cover story, Mary Gaitskill on what the best stories always deliver. Also in the mail this weekend, the current issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. this issue’s cover art, half of a red apple and half of a green apple stapled together, is really arresting. I’m especially interested in the article, “The Useful Object Or: What’s That You’ve Got There,” by Michael Byers.