Author: The Editors

Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an outsider artist, an international freelance writer and a lecturer . His works are artistic manifestation of his actual self and shows the heart for nature and its beautiful creations including human especially woman. He runs an academy called “Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy” in his home ... Read More

Greg Moglia is a veteran of 27 years as Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Education at N.Y.U and 37 years as a high school teacher of Physics and Psychology. His poems have been accepted in over 300 journals in the U.S., Canada England, India, Australia, Sweden, Belgium and Austria as well ... Read More

2/9/17 9:00:00 AM Jacob Appel 2/9/17 10:00:00 AM Bradley Babendir 2/9/17 10:00:00 AM David Atkinson 2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Laurie Foos 2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Philip Dean Walker 2/9/17 1:00:00 PM Sandi Sonnenfeld 2/9/17 2:00:00 PM Sheila McMullin 2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Melissa Grunow 2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Shanee Stepakoff 2/9/17 4:00:00 PM Julia ... Read More

Frederick News Post: Open mic nights often take place in coffee shops or book stores amid patrons chatting over coffee or browsing through books. But what would it be like to read flash fiction or play a song in an intimate setting designated exclusively to literature readings and music performances? ... Read More

Join Eckleburg & Cherry Tree for words and drinks at Busboys & Poets on February 9th, 2017 from 9-11 pm for an AWP 2017 celebration. What others are saying about Eckleburg…   The most exciting and adventurous and gutsiest new magazine I’ve seen in years.” Stephen Dixon   Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire ... Read More

"For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of différance .* For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of departure, a principal responsibility. The problematic of writing is opened by putting into ... Read More

Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. She also is the founding editor of Quail Bell Magazine, an online and occasional print publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. Christine's work has appeared everywhere from Cosmopolitan to the New York Transit Museum to ... Read More

Josh Medsker is a New Jersey writer, originally from Alaska. His work has appeared. Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Josh Medsker: Right now what's driving me is total fear. I started a poetry project in July called Medskerpedia. Every day I read an entry from the ... Read More

Jeannine Ouellette's writing has appeared widely in magazines and journals and she has worked as a writer and editor at regional and national magazines. She has published four books, including the children's picture book, Mama Moon, and she is a 2015 recipient of a Curt Johnson Award in fiction for ... Read More

Darlene Pagán teaches creative writing and literature at Pacific University in Oregon. She published a poetry chapbook, Blue Ghosts (Finishing Line Press 2011), and a full-length collection, Setting the Fires (Airlie Press 2015). Individual poems have appeared in journals such as Field, Calyx, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Hiram Poetry ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Dawn S. Davies: Jaco Pastorius, Richard Fenyman, my family, people who jump off bridges for fun, people who can make art out of blocks of ice, bees, Mark Knopfler, the memory of my childhood Big Wheel, the person who told me ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Aimee LaBrie: Reading, reading, reading. I usually have two or three books going at the same time, and I'll skip between them. I also like to read interviews with writers to see where they get their inspiration and how they fit ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Mark Fabiano: You know this world we live in pushes, almost oppresses the artistic instinct in us all. So I struggle against this "night," this long and dark evening of the soul by getting in touch with my artistic center. Its ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Ellen Urbani: When I was a single mother to two wee ones, I felt my brain cells dying every time I reread GOODNIGHT MOON (which I did about 87 times per day for years on end). As such, I wrote LANDFALL ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Cathy T. Colborn: I grew up in Philadelphia, PA. I love the city of Philadelphia, the beach towns of New Jersey, and the lovely city of New Orleans. I frequent these places as often as I can to boost my inspiration ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Rion Amilcar Scott: Restlessness, boredom, Wu-Tang, insecurity, debt, my characters, injustice, my vision, energy drinks, my son, competition, Diaz, Ellison, Morrison...there's a million other things. Eckleburg: If you had to arm wrestle a famous writer, poet or artist, either living or ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? S.K. Kalsi: Language inspires me, everyday speech with its hidden rhythms, cadences, and how meaning is contextual. My son inspires me. Seeing his fearlessness at play. Watching him take risks, fall, get back up, and try again. His dogged persistence. Nature ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Amy Collini: My children are my primary driver, but in unexpected ways. Before I had children, I lived in an ocean of free time without even knowing it! And I never used my free time toward any productive attempts at writing; ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Jacob M. Appel: A deep and abiding sense of inadequacy. I suppose that's exactly the sort of answer one might expect from a writer-psychiatrist, but that doesn't make it less true. I think there's an argument to be made that some ... Read More

What drives, inspires, feeds your artistic work? My grandfather, born in Iran, moved to Lebanon where he and my grandmother gave birth to my father, and subsequently moved to the United States. My grandfather died young and my grandmother remarried a Catholic. This explains my loaded Christian name, and is ... Read More

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Movement. Metaphor. Sound. Meaning. Poet Annelyse Gelman’s collection, Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone, addresses and implements all of these things. No—challenges all of these things. No, wait—they wrestle, dance, embrace and question all of these things. They do all of that and more. In other words, Gelman’s ... Read More

In her new collection of essays, The Deep Zoo, artist and writer Rikki Ducornet looks at where imagination, violence, dreams, and fairy tales represent the deep zoo at the core of humanity. Here, Ducornet discusses further the ways in which art and the written intersect in our lives and relations ... Read More

In her collection of poetry, Streaming, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke brings nature and our sensory experiences together in order to create a rich collection that speaks to our experiences with the world. The book welcomes the reader to engage with it, to think about and consider the meanings behind Hedge ... Read More

Alice McDermott born June 27, 1953 The Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, Alice McDermott  is also the author of seven novels, the latest of which, Someone, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. In 1998, ... Read More

When the first dog was found headless beside the courthouse culvert, people said it must be the work of boys. Boys having fun. But when the second and third dogs appeared near culverts, those dark holes where sidewalk corners met streets, allowing storm water to gush down into the sewers ... Read More

ALSO FIND US AT... AWP Book Expo Exchange (NY) Conversations & Connections (DC) Mission Creek Festival (Iowa) Litquake (LA) The Poetry Festival (NY) Derangement of the Senses (NY) Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival (NY) The Johns Hopkins University (NY, Balt) ... Read More

Our supervisors have purchased bullwhips. They are intended to keep us obedient and productive. Violence persuades ... Read More

April 5th, DC! ... Read More

Back, back to when nest egg rests on pennies, and little piggy banked on peek-a-birthday riches, I can still see those $10 checks from grandmamma. As the years fling another ring around the sun, another $10 would be mailed in a well of wishes. Yet, even when my voice hopped, ... Read More

Almost exactly one year ago, I was on my way to an interview with the Minneapolis Arts Council for a position on the board. It was a nonpaying position, but the possibility of being able to influence the direction and support of the arts community in my city, no matter ... Read More

A dirty jar on a top shelf falls over, drops to the concrete floor and explodes. Glass shards fly… my mother’s bare legs… my baby sister… ... Read More