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I was carried here by a vanishing woman. I was born vanishing.
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - "Ghosting"
Performing during the Button Poetry/YesYes Books showcase at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles. Check out Hanif's book. Become a member! Support Button Poetry.
The dog upstairs won’t shut up but I can’t hate him. He’s up there, alone, all day. Making noise must be the only way he knows he’s not a ghost.
FROM THE VAULT: Danez Smith - "Dogs!" (AWP 2016)
Performing during the Button Poetry/YesYes Books showcase at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles. Check out Danez’s book on the Button website! HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.
Some Thoughts on AWP by Sandy Ebner
Some Thoughts on AWP by Sandy Ebner
AWP 2016, Los Angeles (Photo: Sandy Ebner)
Two weeks ago I spent three days in Los Angeles, at AWP, the yearly convention held by the Association of Writers & Writer’s Programs. Held in a different city each year, AWP is an opportunity for writers to step away from our laptops, if only for a short while, and to bond with other writers, hopefully learning a few things in the process. It also…
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A Victory For Peanut Butter Bacon Burgers
A Victory For Peanut Butter Bacon Burgers
Some friends and I were going to get lunch during one of the days at AWP 2016 and we weren’t too picky on the place. We all had places to be, so we randomly picked Ford’s Filling Station at the JW Marriott LA because it looked as if there wasn’t too big a line. With 12,000 or so people in the area for AWP 2016, lines could be problematic for getting to afternoon events after lunch. Regardless, we…
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This post is for my Forms of Nonfiction students at Yale-NUS College. I attended the 2016 AWP Conference and promised I would go on a syllabus scavenger hunt, taking photos of or with as many writers from our course as I could. This is a small sampling of the writers we read, but it was a fun search, and the writers were quite gracious about my request for photos.
Clockwise from top: Rajiv Mohabir, Lucas Mann, Kerry Howley, Maggie Nelson, and John D’Agata.
LA Metro Could Have Made That Less Confusing
LA Metro Could Have Made That Less Confusing
I feel a bit whiny complaining about any kind of travel confusion relating to AWP considering that I have multiple friends who may still not have made it home due to flight cancellations, but I’ll go ahead anyway. LA Metro: you could have made that less confusing. I decided to get to and from LAX for AWP via the trains. My wife found a site that had really good directions and was comically…
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This year's AWP Bookfair & Conference was held in sunny Los Angeles, which was a blessed relief during a weekend when the Northeast was being hit with hail, chills, and all those other charming late March by-products. There were a record total…
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was awesome.
Immensely grateful for being part of BOAAT + Diode + Quarterly West's stellar reading at La Cita Bar. There was sushi & cake, there was tequila & Tecate, there were new friends & old friends, & there were so many good words.
