by Lance Larsen | Jan 16, 2013
For Green Mountains Review’s 25th Anniversary Poetry Retrospective, published last spring, contributors were asked to submit short “Talk Back” essays reflecting on the poem’s genesis, influence, enduring relevance, and any number of strange...
by Neil Shepard | Jan 9, 2013
Last spring, GMR celebrated its first twenty-five years with a 400-page poetry retrospective compiled by Founding Editor Neil Shepard. This was also Neil’s last issue before stepping down as Senior Editor. To read through this anniversary issue is to marvel at...
by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 4, 2013
Overheard at a creative writing conference: Writer 1 said, “He was looking for flash fiction. Flash fiction.” Writer 2 said, “Don’t you write poetry?” “Yeah,” said Writer 1. “So I just like sent him some prose poems and stuff.” Writer 2 said, “And?” ...
by Edward Mullany | Dec 19, 2012
I have nothing to say. But even that sentence, I see, is saying something, which makes it untrue, or both true and untrue at the same time. Yesterday, when I walked through the park, I saw a woman feeding squirrels. She said, when I stopped to watch, “What is it you...
by Edward Mullany | May 21, 2012
It seems fitting to conclude this season’s Why Write? series as deftly as Daryl Scroggins began it. And who is more deft than Edward Mullany? Why Write? An old woman tells the story of how, in her youth, she fell in love with a man who was not the man she...
by Suzanne Wise | May 4, 2012
Alice Fulton has said of Suzanne Wise’s work that “it bristles with the struggle to define and comprehend the absurd component of evil and despair.” Here in her “Why Write?” piece she turns toward the “monastic devotion” that...
