Tag: Prose Poetry

Interview: Heidi Czerwiec

By Guest Author | Interviews, Craft, Classroom | January 24, 2025

Image is the book cover for CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY: STRIKE A CHORD by Heidi Czerwiec; title card for the new interview with Amy Scheiner.

I started writing lyric essays long before I knew the language for what I was doing. Working at the intersection of poetry and prose, I wrote about big emotions (love, grief) because I wasn’t sure how else to convey…

Conversations Between Friends: Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Emily Costa

By Guest Author | Interviews, Craft, Classroom | August 2, 2024

Image is the book covers for EXPLODING HEAD by Cynthia Marie Hoffman and UNTIL IT FEELS RIGHT by Emily Costa; title card for the new conversation between the authors.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Emily Costa are both authors of memoirs about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Costa’s Until It Feels Right is a diary-style account of intensive three-week therapy for OCD. Hoffman’s Exploding Head is a collection of prose poems…