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I am heiden/heathen
This week, Megan M. Garr, author of the recently released Terrane, offers us the story of the book’s origins. * * * Terrane began with a single word, which is not itself anywhere in the poem. Heide....
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three years
When I told Laressa Dickey that I, too, was tired of her work being passed over in contests and open reading periods, and that I thought it was worth publishing, and hey, what if I published it (in...
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Coming soon: HOW ABSENCE (Rachel Moritz)
Rachel Moritz’s How Absence (now available for pre-order; shipping early April) has been praised by Sarah Vap as “a stunning collection that lurches with open arms, seemingly in slow motion, seemingly...
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HOW ABSENCE, by Rachel Moritz
Every time I set out with a new manuscript—heading for the precipice marked make a book—although I have the accumulated knowledge and abilities gained from the process of all the books that have come...
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PLURALITY DECREE
Celina Su’s microseries chapbook, Plurality Decree, is now available for pre-order. The third chapbook in our microseries, Plurality Decree contains three poems that comment on uses of space,...
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Rachel Moritz on HOW ABSENCE
Today, Rachel Moritz—whose How Absence is being bound now and is shipping as we bind—writes for us about the process of making these poems and of forming this book, and about motherhood. A strange...
View ArticleOpen reading 2015
We will read work in June for chapbooks to add to our 2016 list. You can send work to us via Submittable. (Note that we are on Belgian time, which means our June 1 may begin before yours, and our June...
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Our reading month
We received about a hundred and fifty manuscripts in June, for which thank you. They have all been read once; over the next two weeks, I’ll read them again and draw up a list of finalists by the end of...
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SHINE A LIGHT, THE LIGHT WON’T PASS, by Natalie Vestin
After reading Natalie Vestin’s Shine a light, the light won’t pass, Kathleen L. Housley wrote that “Natalie Vestin has an inner compass that helps her maintain exquisite balance between science and...
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An interview with William Reichard
In the first of a series of interviews for MIEL, Carol Rowntree Jones spoke with William Reichard, whose chapbook as breath in winter was published this spring. CRJ: Bill, I’d like to ask you where...
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Reading for 111O/9 (spring 2016)
Unbelievably (because how can next year be so close), we’re reading for 111O/9, which will be out in May of 2016. One note: we’re not reading prose this time around. We’ve already invited some writers...
View Articlea [ ] of one’s own
A “woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write”. Woolf finishes that statement with ‘fiction’, but I think it is true for all kinds of writing. And also I think ‘woman’ does not...
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[ S O F T N E S S ]
Call for work: —Margaret Chapman and I are editing an anthology that will orbit around/ develop the concept of [ S O F T N E S S ] as an aesthetic, ethics, politics, pedagogy, strategy…. We would love...
View Article2016 Dickinson House Residencies & Fellowships
Fellowships: For the 2016 season, Dickinson House will award two fellowships to writers and one to a visual artist. One writing fellowship is reserved for a writer living in a location with a...
View ArticleWant 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 […]
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