Congratulations to our 2019 Nominees! Poetry Nathan McClain “They said I was an alternate,” (so I sought to perfect) Sheryl L. White “Muskrats on the Ark” Rooja Mohassessy “Shopping” Memoir Kayla Lutes “Lilacs in Memoriam” Beth Kephart “Fixing Beauty” Fiction Michael Xu Wang “New Work in New China”
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Personal History and the Power of Repetition
A Poetry Prompt from Nathan McClain Using as a template Gregory Pardlo’s “Written by Himself” (from his book Digest), in which variations of “I was born” begin many of the lines, McClain asks his writing students to introduce themselves via the poetic method of repetition known as anaphora, with a repeated phrase of their own…
Nathan McClain
“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…