Askold Melnyczuk 12/8/20 Askold Melnyczuk 12/8/20

Reflections on Editing

While my editorial intention is simple to articulate, it was much easier to practice in the seventies and eighties.

Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 12/8/20 Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 12/8/20

College 2020: The Fall

Two talented interns of Arrowsmith Press compare notes on college life in 2020.

Douglas Penick 12/8/20 Douglas Penick 12/8/20

For Music

No pitch has its own unique history or fate. There is only the simultaneous and evolving multiplicity.

Askold Melnyczuk 9/29/20 Askold Melnyczuk 9/29/20

Introduction to Volume 11

The United States is at a crossroads.

Paul Auster 9/29/20 Paul Auster 9/29/20

Parable of the Drowning Man

And so, rather than do the obvious thing, you decide to do nothing and continue on your way.

Sven Birkerts 9/29/20 Sven Birkerts 9/29/20

Serendipity: Notebook

Some days I do wake up and find an idea just waiting for me.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 9/29/20 Thomas Sayers Ellis 9/29/20

Folkcal Fraim 4

Still Photography is full of inner life lured into a larger inner life. The mirror of infinity is life.

David Ghitelman 9/29/20 David Ghitelman 9/29/20

How to Read Contemporary Fiction

I urge you to diversify your life in order to become a better reader.

Andrea Gregory 9/29/20 Andrea Gregory 9/29/20

Saving Face

I worry this is part of my decline. A crooked smile. Nothing to smile about.

Dan Hunter 9/29/20 Dan Hunter 9/29/20

Church of the Almighty Algorithm

Why do serious-minded computer scientists use the language of religious mysticism?

Julia Juster 9/29/20 Julia Juster 9/29/20

Back to School

I want school to go back to what it was, and I want it to be completely different.

James Brandon Lewis 9/29/20 James Brandon Lewis 9/29/20

Molecular Systematic Music: A Graphic Reveal

The nucleus is a visual reminder of the core of one’s artistic beliefs.

Jill McCorkle 9/29/20 Jill McCorkle 9/29/20

As a Matter of Fact

Fact: Democracy as we know it is at stake.

Mark Pawlak 9/29/20 Mark Pawlak 9/29/20

Relevant? Relevant Still? Relevant Again!

Like phoenixes rising from the ashes of old newspaper stories, political poems come round again with renewed relevance.

Thaila Ramanujam 9/29/20 Thaila Ramanujam 9/29/20

Distancing

When the orders for instant evacuation arrived, my husband and I were stunned.

Mosab Abu Toha 9/29/20 Mosab Abu Toha 9/29/20

Just How New is “New” Arab Poetry

My friends who write in Arabic refuse to call what I write in Arabic “poetry.”

John Wronoski 9/29/20 John Wronoski 9/29/20

The Best Revenge

It might not be impertinent to think of Minima Moralia as noir philosophy.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 7/16/20 Thomas Sayers Ellis 7/16/20

Folkcal Fraim 3

Photography helps the past drown the present and the present resuscitate myth.

James Brandon Lewis 7/16/20 James Brandon Lewis 7/16/20

MOLECULAR SYSTEMATIC MUSIC: PART I

An artist can examine his musical experiences through the lens of DNA to discover his own artistic (genetic) code of being.

Askold Melnyczuk 7/16/20 Askold Melnyczuk 7/16/20

A Budget for Billionaires (Or: How to Survive on $30,000 a Day)

“My daily allowance will still be around $30,000 a day. It’s not what I’m used to, but I’ll adjust.”