HeyJaredThe Cage Is Open
Reflections on books, shame, loneliness, and reading on the couch all day
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Reading, Teaching, and Riverwork (opens the original)
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Is This Material an Essay or a Poem? (opens the original)
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My essay “Your Life for Another” won the Robert and Adele Schiff Award this fall, and it was right at the moment when I’d decided that the essay form was not for me. Say what you will about contests with their high fees and competition (competition for art has always felt wrong-headed to me), throughout my writing life, contests have given me affirmation when I didn’t have any. I am a poet, not an essayist, but I found myself writing narrative poems that could not be contained. This particular s
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