Anyone who knows the writer, artist and therapist Cynthia Matsakis is lucky indeed. I met her when we were both undergraduate poets at the University of Maryland, where she wowed…
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A Very ASP Holiday
Well, it’s that festive season once again, and we at ASP are celebrating the end of our first year in business by decking the halls of our imaginary offices and…
On Becoming a Publisher
I’ve wanted to be a publisher since I was ten years old. It was then that I produced my first, very limited editions, folding sheets of construction paper into folios…
A Great Poetry Magazine Turns 120: The Poet Lore Birthday Party
Writers love to talk about what a thick skin it takes to do what we do, and how quickly inured to rejection we become. Don’t believe a word of it….
My Summer Reading
May 31, 2009 I’ve never been one for light reading in the summer. With my teaching duties suspended, summer is the time when I can read purely for myself….
How the New Age Movement Drove Me to the National Hockey League
With the National Hockey League kicking off its All-Star Weekend today in Montreal, I’m feeling sentimental about my own introduction to the great game of hockey, detailed below. I originally…