“Muse Becomes Poet” (detail) © Donald Langosy
Theme for this Issue
50 Shades of Adaptation
- It’s a Book! It’s a Movie! It’s a…Zombie?
Editor’s Note by Elizabeth Langosy
Shaken, Not Stirred
In essays that publish on Mondays throughout November and December, TW writers mix it up with words, music, film—and everything in between
- Why Horror Movies Disappoint Readers by KC Redding-Gonzalez
- Do We Need Prose Poetry? by David Meischen
- Holy Adaptation, Batman! Who’s the Real You? by Andrew Vanden Bossche
- Channeling Capote’s “In Cold Blood” by Mali Sastri
- Emily Dickinson, Zombie by Martha Nichols
Book vs. Movie
“Behind the Beautiful Forevers” is great journalism, but—damn it!—”Slumdog Millionaire” packs a wallop
- Why Did a Manipulative Movie Make Me Cry?
TW Author Note by Lorraine Berry
Last night I dreamt of a Manderley free of lousy film adaptations…
- Hitchcock Got “Rebecca” Dead Wrong
TW Author Note by Elizabeth Langosy
Featured Poetry
"Fly"
- Giavanna Munafo: Two Poems
• Don’t Go
• Boys Will Be
- Laura Walker: Three from “KJV”
• genesis [in the beginning the land]
• genesis [in the beginning there were stairs]
• genesis [in the beginning the skies]
Featured Fiction
Ann Bruno
- Ann Lightcap Bruno: Short Story
• Open Bar
- Ann Lightcap Bruno on Writing
“How to Become a Writer” Interview by Kelcey Parker
Image Essays
“Young Poet in Venice”
A poet who’s also a collage artist—and a painter
who nods to his inner poet
- The Collaged Brain: Poetry, Art, Music
by Camille Martin
- Poets and Painters
by Donald Langosy
The Writer’s Life
On a book tour late last year, the writer of “The Warsaw Anagrams” confronts anti-Semitism in the Old Country
- A Tale of Two Polands
by Richard Zimler
Before you can write haiku, you need to recognize the moments that inspire it
- How Haiku Changed My Writing Life
by Theresa Williams - The Group Makes the Writer
by Kate Brandt - A Cacophony of Nudgy Voices
by Laurie Weisz - Porcelain Bones
by Judith A. Ross - Sorry, Your Buddies Won’t Buy Your Book
by David Biddle - I Wrote a Gumbo
by Emily Toth - Where’s Bilbo?
by Martha Nichols - “We Mega” © Camille Martin (November cover): previously published in Spidertangle
- “The Birth of Newton” © Camille Martin (Editor’s Note); previously published in Rhubarb Magazine
- “Altar” © Camille Martin (Editor’s Note)
- “Byzantine Man” © Camille Martin (Editor’s Note); previously published in Cella Magazine
- “Sampler” © Camille Martin (“Do We Need Prose Poetry?”)
- “Muse Becomes Poet” (detail) © Donald Langosy (December cover)
- “Puck and Helena” (detail) © Donald Langosy (“Emily Dickinson, Zombie”)
- “Horror Scream Girl” © Sharon Pruitt; Creative Commons license
- “Ruin Stone Night” © Arvydas Kniukšta; stock image
- “Red Nightmare” © Daniel Diaz; stock image
- “Page 15” and “Page 11″ © Eric; Creative Commons license
- “Pure West” © Rahzzah Murdock; used by permission
- “Batman and Gideon” © Hadley Langosy; used by permission
- Jaggery photo © Noah Blumenson-Cook; used by permission
- Kansas State Penitentiary mug shot of Perry Smith;
public domain - “Chinese Elms on the Road Leading to the Clutter House” © Mali Sastri; used by permission
- Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, circa 1848, from the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection and Family Papers, Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; public domain
- Daguerreotype purported to show 30-year-old Emily Dickinson with her friend Kate Scott Turner, circa 1859; released to the public in September 2012 by Amherst College Archives and Special Collections and the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts
- “Mumbai Street Scene” © Peter Rivera; Creative Commons license
- “Matunga, Mumbai” © Paul Morrison; Creative Commons license
- “Opposite Haji Ali Masjid, Mumbai” © Satbir Singh; Creative Commons license
- “Fly” © Vince Petaccio; stock image
- “Porous” © Judith; Creative Commons license
- “Blue Moon” © Tracy Olson; stock image
- “Wedding” © Mark Lunt; Creative Commons license
- “Antique Shop Window in Poznan with Menorah (and Central Square Reflected),” “At Grandfather’s House in Breziny,” “With Katarzyna Markusz,” “With Students at Maria Konopnika High School,” “Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw,” and “The Only Jewish Restaurant in Poznan” © Richard Zimler; used by permission
- “Work with Reflections,” “Crystal Apple Reflection,” and “Reflections” © Felicity Rainnie; used by permission
- “Seven Caricatures” by Franceso Melzi, 1515; public domain
- “Five Caricature Heads” by Leonardo da Vinci, after 1490; public domain
- “Inside the Kiln” and other photos of Elizabeth Cohen’s studio © Judith Ross; used by permission
- “Age” (photo of porcelain nesting bowls) © Elizabeth Cohen; used by permission
- “Thumbs Up” © Adam Borkowski; stock image
- “Nocturnalism” © Ken-ichi Ueda; Creative Commons license
- “Doh” © Hobvias Sudoneighm; Creative Commons license
- “Okra” © Rebecca Wilson; Creative Commons license
- “Boiled Shrimp” © Jeremy Keith; Creative Commons license
- “Breaux Bridge: Frenchified Seafood Gumbo at Chez Jacqueline” © Southern Foodways Alliance; photo by Sara Roahen; Creative Commons license
Why I Write
A poet is never just a woman or a man. Every poet is salted with fire. A poet is a mirror, a transcriber.” — Susan Howe (on Emily Dickinson)
"Porous"
TW Columns
"Age"
Talking Art
A wintry visit to Elizabeth Cohen’s pottery studio
"Nocturnalism"
Talking Indie
Column Debut!
The trouble with the “Friends and Family” plan….
Nothing But the Toth
Is your book a gumbo…or a jambalaya?
Talking Film
How “unexpected” is Peter Jackson’s revamp?
Artwork in this Issue
“Byzantine Man”
Featured Artist: Camille Martin
“Muse Becomes Poet”
Featured Artist: Donald Langosy
Other Photo and Art Credits
"Red Nightmare"
With “Why Horror Movies Disappoint Readers”:
With “Do We Need Prose Poetry?”:
With “Holy Adaptation, Batman!”:
With “Channeling Capote’s In Cold Blood”:
“Chinese Elms”
With “Emily Dickinson, Zombie”:
With “Why Did a Manipulative Movie Make Me Cry?”:
With “Giavanna Munafo: Two Poems”:
"blue moon"
With “Laura Walker: Three from ‘KJV’”:
With “Open Bar”:
With “A Tale of Two Polands”:
With “The Group Makes the Writer”:
With “A Cacophony of Nudgy Voices”:
“Pottery Studio”
With “Porcelain Bones”:
With “Sorry, Your Buddies Won’t Buy Your Book”:
"Okra"
With “I Wrote a Gumbo”:
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