BOOKS A Little Corner of the Vanishing World Contributor Bethany Maile on her new essay collection Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis
ON CRAFT Writing in the Time of Family Separations Photo by Aslan Chalom I felt more than a little ridiculous, standing in the middle of the night in a little shed nicknamed The Oracle. The structure resembled an old outhouse, with a tiny A-frame roof and weathered wood shingles on the exterior walls. Inside, there was a picnic basket with a hole cut […]
PLAYLIST “She’s Mine Pt. 1” Shenandoah’s contributors respond to a request for a song that inspires their work and share the reasons why
BOOKS Playful but Pointed Contributor stephanie roberts on her poetry collection, rushes from the river disappointment
BEHIND THE POEM Grace Arenas’s “If a springbok were to compete on Season 24 of ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’” The concept of hot-girl-as-springbok gives Grace Arenas the inspiration for a poem at the intersection of entertainment and sonic discovery.
CONVERSATIONS Transcending Borders to Global Authorship In this feature piece, Lucy Scott, Denice Gravenstijn, and Annemarie Toebosch recap highlights from their interview with author Vamba Sherif, in which he discusses his life, his short story “Flame Trees,” and his forthcoming memoir.
ON CRAFT Vera and I: On POV, Projection, and a Problem Narrator Marisa P. Clark contextualizes her novel excerpt from the spring 2020 issue.
BEHIND THE POEM Ellen Goldstein’s “Almanac for Nonbelievers” I wrote the first draft of “Almanac for Nonbelievers” at a borrowed kitchen table in Vermont, staring out at the ridge above a neighboring field. I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia but have spent most of my adult life in coastal New England. I was happy to be back in a place where mountains […]
