Writing a WWII novel was so daunting it took me 10 years to begin. Excited to discuss Writing Your Way Through a Major World Event, whether historical or contemporary at #AWP with @katyaapekina@iolanidancing@lenazycinsky & Cecilia Rabess
Submission pile is looking fat and great. Keep sending stuff, we close July 31st and we want to crush everyone's hopes to less than 1%. It currently stands at 1.7% which is far too optimistic for this magazine. We can define Literary however we want. Send trash. We pay $100.
“Living many hundreds of miles from Ukraine, away from this war, in my comfortable American backyard, what right do I have to write about this war?—and yet I cannot stop writing about it.
#IlyaKaminsky, excerpted from “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine”
Another poem of mine that the kind editors of @leavingslitmag published in their new issue. The title comes from the opening sentence of Danilo Kiš’s essay “Homo Poeticus, Regardless”
There will always be silence, no matter how long someone has wept against the side of a house, bare forearms pressed to the shingles.
Everything ends. Even pain, even sorrow.
The swans drift on.
#doriannelaux, from 'Evening'
Swans swimming around the now submerged town of Ukraine