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How Form Reflects Meaning
Close Study: “Japanese Maple” by Clive James Retrieved from clivejames.com. Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain: Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see So much…
Introducing Erica Anzalone
Erica Anzalone is the owner and founder of Witch Lit. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and a doctorate in English from UNLV, where she was awarded a Schaeffer fellowship. Her first book of poetry Samsara won the Noemi Press award. Poems from her second collection have been published in The Literary Review, Juked, Pangyrus, and…
Experiments, Epiphanies, and Inserting Yourself In Your Writing
Close Study: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Because this novel is in the public domain, you can find the full text at Gutenberg here. I finished Joyce’s autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man earlier this year. When I told people I was reading it, the typical…