Last week’s feature was Van Jordan’s new book of poetry, The Cineaste, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Glenn H. Myers (@glennhmyers)
Doug Lawson (@douglawson)
Stacy Faulk (@kiokokitten)

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This week’s feature is A. Van Jordan’s new book of poetry, The Cineaste, which was just published by W.W. Norton. The book merges the form and content of an obsession, film, to produce poems tracking the inner lives of movie viewers, the career of early black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, the story of the Leo Frank [...]

Leah Falk talks with A. Van Jordan about his fourth poetry collection, The Cineaste, his intentions for this new work, and what’s changed about the way we go to the movies.

Editor’s Note: Fritz Swanson has graciously donated time, talent and materials to create a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind edition of Charles Baxter’s poem “Please Marry Me” for The Great Write Off and The State of the Book. The top five FWR fundraisers for The Great Write Off will get one of only 100 copies of the poem [...]

Poetry—it isn’t just for poets! In her latest column, Katie Umans recommends straying from fiction with the following books: Kingdom Animalia, Something in the Potato Room, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie, and Lucky Fish.

“There are people who talk about themselves in the first person, people who talk about themselves in the third person, and people who don’t talk about themselves at all,” says a character in A Meaning for Wife. Yet poet Mark Yakich’s debut novel is narrated–quite successfully–in the controversial second-person.

Last week we featured Fimbul-Winter, by Debra Allbery, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to:

Ashlie F. Harper (@ashliefharper)
margie at justbooks (@justbooks)
David (@notsolinear)

To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address:
winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com
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Poet Debra Albery examines the influence of Sherwood Anderson on her writing, and on her understanding of her own history and place. She writes: “If I came into writing feeling largely without history or place, writing became a means of discovering both; it also became [...] a means of discovering a way out, the road ahead. Sherwood Anderson gave me a map.”

When I was an MFA student at the University of Maryland, Stanley Plumly said two things about my poetry that have stuck with me and shaped not only how I think about my writing process but also how I approach teaching creative writing.
In one conference, he asked, Will you ever write a ten-syllable line? Stanley [...]

Ever hear of knitbombing? Well, now, there’s poetry bombing. Galleycat reports:
Miami artist Agustina Woodgate illustrated the art of “poetry bombing,” sewing snippets of poems into thrift store clothes.
Here’s a video:

Poetry is so well suited for this, but can you imagine fiction bombing? Little snippets of short stories or knockout lines from novels [...]