Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Monday, March 10, 2025

Interview with Poet Joan Larkin about Her Book Old Stranger

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Joan Larkin ’s sixth book of poems is Old Stranger (Alice James Books 2024). Her previous work includes My Body: New and Selected Poems , w...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

“Yes”—The Power of a Single Word, by Federico Roncoroni

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This charming and thoughtful essay is an excerpt from the Italian writer Federico Roncoroni ’s book Words: A Private Dictionary [ Parole: Un...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

The Braided Poem

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In recent decades, the braided poem has opened dynamic possibilities for writers and readers. The current wave of braided poems began with t...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg by Michael Palmer

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Jerome “Jerry” Rothenberg , poet, translator, performance artist, and anthologist passed away at the age of 92 on April 21, 2024. He wrote n...
Monday, December 9, 2024

The Problem of the Unsympathetic Main Character

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Quick!—think of a novel, movie, or play with an unsympathetic main character. It’s not easy, is it? There aren’t many stories that fall into...
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Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2024 by Zack Rogow.
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