Writing While Not Writing
May 6, 2025
By Olivia Clare Friedman A poet muses on the creative process and the ways she’s learned to keep the creative thoughts coming. Photo by charlesdeluvio As I am sailing around… READ MORE
Category: Literary Studies
Musings on Poetry and Publication
March 18, 2025
By David Romtvedt The author of the poetry collection Still on Earth describes the winding path that eventually brought him to LSU Press. Photo by Aaron Burden Still on Earth… READ MORE
Irish Coins and Special Editions
February 12, 2025
By Henry Hart Henry Hart recalls being on the receiving end of Seamus Heaney’s unassuming and remarkable commitment to gift giving. Seamus Heaney at a turf bog in Bellaghy, Northern… READ MORE
Revising “Hills Like White Elephants”
August 6, 2024
By John Beall John Beall describes the meticulous process through which Hemingway refined his stories for publication. In my book Hemingway’s Art of Revision, I give a detailed description of… READ MORE
A Walk in the Park
July 11, 2024
By Alice Friman LSU Press poet Alice Friman shares a poem that sprang from a life-changing experience. For me, writing poetry is the great permission. Everything and anything is allowed…. READ MORE
Words and Faith
June 5, 2024
By Anne Pierson Wiese LSU Press poet Anne Pierson Wiese explores how an early love of books informed her unwavering faith in reading and the written word. Before I could… READ MORE
Angels and Demons
March 12, 2024
By Robert Morgan The author of Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe muses on the fascinating life of the beloved writer. Much we assume we know about Edgar… READ MORE
Jolly Ranchers, Taffies, and Receipts
February 15, 2024
By Cassander L. Smith The author of Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic on what inspired her latest monograph. I don’t remember my exact age or the year,… READ MORE
Finding “Harriet Ann’s Christmas”
December 11, 2023
By Thomas Ruys Smith In this post, Thomas Ruys Smith describes how he came across a long-lost holiday story by a celebrated New England writer of the late nineteenth century…. READ MORE
Metaphor as Shelter in The Court of No Record
June 5, 2023
By Jenny Molberg Poet Jenny Molberg explores how individuals and institutions employ language, legal linguistics, and figures of speech to distort truth and punish those who seek it. She also… READ MORE