Last night, I managed to finally hunt down and rent a copy of Broken Tower, James Franco’s art house, biopic picture about the poet Hart Crane. I didn’t have any expectations for the film to be good or bad, but I was excited to see the figure of Hart Crane get some screen time. When […]
Book lovers, please stop by poet and all around nice guy Eduardo C. Corral’s blog LorcaLoca to see an interview about my chapbook Slow Depth. It’s strange to be on the other side of the interview table! CLICK HERE!
This week, I was reading the poems of the the poet Nazim Hikmet and was thoroughly surprised by his use of modern words where I wasn’t expecting to find them. Granted, my familiarity with modern poetry of the Middle East is limited, but when a reader compares the poems of Hikmet to that of Mahmoud […]
The end of February and the entire month of March have been filled with literary events. I attended the Associated Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference in Chicago. While there, I attended several readings and had an author signing with my press. In March, I escaped Idaho for a bit on spring break and […]
I feel like a whirlwind. No sooner had I left for Chicago and AWP then I was coming back again. I raced around this week unpacking, teaching my Intermediate Poetry Writing Class Richard Siken’s book Crush (or more honestly, I didn’t teach it, we talked about the poems in depth) and then started packing again for […]
Friends, Fans and Fellow Writers, Please come by and see me at the AWP conference in Chicago. Hear me read from my chapbook Slow Depth and get your copy signed. On Thursday March 1, 2012 from 6:00pm-8:00pm: I will be reading at theRane Arroyo Memorial Reading located at 624 S. Michigan AvenueColumbia College North Library Reading […]
I resolved last year to keep a reading list. I was successful and maybe keeping a list helped me to reach my goal of reading 100 books. This year, in January I read something like 3,000 pages for pleasure and as academic work. 3,000 Pages! That is the most I have ever read in a […]
As readers, we are often stunned by the prose of the page, but how many of us think about the author toiling away to get their words in front of us? Writers do. I sometimes sit in front of a poem, or sentence dazzled. I think, “How could a writer do this?” I then begin […]
Dear Readers, In the weeks to come, I will be heading to AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) in Chicago. Between 7,000-10,000 writers, publishers, editors, educators, and readers will converge on the Windy City to attend readings, panels, and party with the literati and academia. It’s fun. It’s draining. It is also where my […]
Andrew Demcak is an award-winning poet and novelist whose work has been widely published and anthologized both in print and on-line, and whose books have been featured at Verse Daily, The Lambda Literary Foundation, The Best American Poetry blog, and Oranges & Sardines. His fourth book of poetry, Night Chant, was published by Lethe Press, 2011. His other […]