Want to edit for MIEL?
I’m looking to add an editor to MIEL. This would ideally be a long-term working relationship, and yes, ideally in the long term a paid one. For the sake of financial transparency: printing is very...
View ArticleMIEL 2015 gift guide
As in years past, it’s my pleasure to show you some of the beautiful things I’ve found online. If you’re looking for a present at this or any time of year, here are my recommendations. * * * Itsuko...
View Article2015 gift guide, part two
As in years past, it’s my pleasure to show you some of the beautiful things I’ve found online. If you’re looking for a present at this or any time of year, here are my recommendations. Part one of this...
View ArticleIntroducing…
Let me say how pleased I am to welcome Andrea Blancas Beltran to MIEL. Andrea will be acting as an associate editor over the course of 2016, working with me on the editing and production of many of...
View ArticleAn interview with Amy Wright
Amy Wright’s essays think about ‘land’ first as the thing to which thinking belongs: the place without which one cannot be, much less begin to think. Land is between the […]
View ArticleChange of plans
In solidarity with those whom he has hurt, MIEL has decided not to go forward with the planned chapbook of work by Thomas Sayers Ellis. Andrea and I thank those […]
View ArticleNo June reading period this year
As it says above, we’re going to sit this one out. No open reading period for the press in 2016. If you’re interested in MIEL publishing your work, you can […]
View ArticleNo reading period this June
Dear readers and writers, This year there will be no open reading period. I want to concentrate on the books MIEL has already put into the world, and on the […]
View ArticleLocalities [14]
Willie Lin, whose chapbook Lesser Birds of Paradise is just out, writes about where—and the atmospheric quality of where—she writes. When thinking about where I write, I come to the notion […]
View ArticleDickinson House writing fellowships – deadline 15 September!
In 2017, two writers (poets, prose writers, playwrights, translators all eligible) will be invited to Dickinson House as fellows for two weeks each. Our past fellows have had some amazing […]
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