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The Writing: Vacation mode

Hello, I am on vacation! The Writing will return next week. In the meantime, here are two threads I have noted in the recent past on getting a writing education outside of an MFA. Meant for poets but useful for all.

The Writing: On finding one’s own measures (Part 2)

On Sunday I began a postscript detailing my most vivid memories of emerging in my career thus far. It turned out to be larger than a postscript. Here’s the next leg of the journey, on my first fellowship and my first book.

My first fellowship.

The same year I received my first acceptance, I started hanging around Poets House, a poetry library once open on the Hudson in New York’s Battery Park. I spent so much time there that I eventually became friends with the programs coordinator at the time, wh...

Postscript: On finding one’s own measures (Part 1)

Letter: ‘What’s an “Emerging” Writer and How Do I Become One?’

There are, obviously, milestones that signal to others that one has “made it” as a writer. There are also, less obviously, the milestones that signal to oneself that there is permission to continue. This is the strange journey I wanted to get to in this week’s letter, and it’s gotten me thinking about what those moments have been for me—what did I think they mean, and what did they actually mean?

My first publication acceptance after c...

‘What’s an “Emerging” Writer and How Do I Become One?’

Welcome back to The Reading, radical empathy for writers with Yanyi. Last month, paid subscribers received the following:

The postscript to today’s letter: On finding one’s own measures (Part 1 – My first acceptance and my first writing group)Private access to the inaugural writers’ cafe, Writing Space (more below)Private access to a free 15-minute one-on-one consultation with meThe Writing: Writing together this monthThe Writing: On writing spacesAn invitation to join The Reading’s new Discord s...