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Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know

Come January, I’ll be taking part in a sort of high-minded thumbwrestling match between visual art and the textual kind called Call & Response, which is being curated by PIKs Kira Wisniewski and William Bert. It works like this: a bunch of writers write some things, and a bunch of visual artists create work in [...]

Adios, DC (For a Little While) + Hello, PA + PIK News

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Tomorrow morning I drive up to Lewisburg, PA for “four months of unfettered writing time” that I have been very much looking forward to since I found out about it in May.
The *plan* is to be as scarce as possible as I try to put [...]

OK, Look. I am Just Posting This, With Little to No Editorializing.

PIK Ryan Call (via HTMLGIANT) and my Lewisburg predecessor have been covering the recent emergence of Abramson Leslie Consulting, “the first-ever consulting firm designed exclusively for applicants to Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), and doctorate (Ph.D.) in Creative Writing Programs.”
Here is a snippet of Ryan’s post at HTMLGIANT:
[...] due to some [...]

Milestone w/ Bruised Chompers + I’m Reading This Week

Today marks my third, smoke-free month–I quit over spring break this past semester–and in honor of the milestone I received in the mail a nice little gift from my buddy Gerald, currently on a West Coast excursion: an empty pack of Taiwanese, Longlife cigarettes, complete with duel warning labels depicting a mother and child dying [...]

Ain’t No Party Like a C-SPAN Party; More PIK News

The other night at Busboys & Poets was the release party for The Way We See It, the Capitol Letters student anthology I edited and have written relentlessly about here to over the last eight months. I’m pleased to report that it went tremendously (likely because I had no hand whatsoever in the planning of [...]