Tag: Writing
The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars will host a reading by two long-time friends and JHU Press authors, John Irwin and Wyatt Prunty, on Thursday, February 25, at 6:30 p.m. The reading, reception, and book signing take place in Gilman Hall, Room 50, on JHU's Homewood campus. The event is free and open to the…
Interview by Yasmine Kaminsky You mentioned in an interview with the Tennessee Literary Project that although your parents raised you in a cultured household, you initially did not believe you would become a writer. How, then, did your path to poetry form? I was the son and grandson of professors, so growing up I had…
Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival! The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books). The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…
Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival! The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books). The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…
Guest post by Michele Callaghan As an editor, I like words. It is safe to say that I love them. But sometimes there are just too many of them. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Turning perfectly good verbs into nouns just so you can add a preposition, repeating ideas and even…
By Hilary S. Jacqmin, JHUP Staff How did you become a writer? What drew you to poetry specifically? What were your early poems like? It’s hard to imagine that my early poems weren’t a lot like those of many others. Long on adolescent angst and abstraction. A little lonely and sad with a healthy twist…
We're celebrating Poetry Month on the Blog in April with selections from recent books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry & Fiction series. First up, three poems by Wyatt Prunty from his new volume, Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Robert Hass calls Prunty "a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill, and Justice," and…
We're celebrating Poetry Month on the Blog in April with selections from recent books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry & Fiction series. First up, three poems by Wyatt Prunty from his new volume, Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Robert Hass calls Prunty "a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill, and Justice," and…
Interveiw by Hilary Jacqmin, Assistant Manuscript Editor We continue our conversation with Tracy Daugherty, author of the new collection of short stories, Empire of the Dead. This book is very much a post-9/11 creation. Some of the stories take place before 2001—The Magnitudes, most significantly, deals in a very personal way with the Oklahoma City…
Interview by Hilary Jacqmin, Assistant Manuscript Editor We are pleased to introduce A Writer’s Life, an occasional series on the JHUP Blog featuring interviews with the authors included in our Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series. First up is Tracy Daugherty, author of the recently published collection of short fiction, Empire of the Dead. Five out of…