On the legitimacy of pen names
There’s been another storm brewing in the writing and publishing world over the Labor Day weekend. The Best of American Poetry 2015 […]
Tag: poetry
‘On that one-way trip to Mars’ in Crab Fat Magazine
I would go to Mars if I wasn’t too short for NASA’s height restrictions. I had two more space-themed poems published in Crab […]
Come on a space journey with me
Today several of my sci-fi themed poems were published in the maiden issue of The Syzygy Poetry Journal, in Constellation: Prosodus. The first issue […]
Writing about periods — and finding a home for it
I’m so happy my poem “On it” found a home in Straight Forward Poetry last month. This poem is very close to my heart […]
Giving voice to survivors
As the rain poured in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night, a group of a couple dozen people gathered in Chinatown to share poems, […]
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera says poetry offers solace in times of grief
The next U.S. Poet Laureate has been chosen, NPR reports. It is Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino in the position. Take a listen […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Male White Poet
Electric Literature published an advice column in early June where a white male poet addressed his privilege head-on and asked if the time for […]
For Ferguson
Like a black-caped magician, a man crouches in the street, vanishing among cumulus clouds of lachrymator gas. He’s alone. His eyes drip […]
Coding as poetry
Just like poetry, writing code is trial and error. You don’t know where you’ll end up when you first begin. You often […]
An Approach to Teaching Poetry With Afghan Women Writers
On March 29, in a Saturday morning panel at the 2014 Split This Rock poems of provocation and witness poetry festival, the […]
Published in The Little Patuxent Review
The end of 2013 and into 2014 have been great for my poetry! I had two poems published—one in Lines+Stars Journal and […]
Published in Lines+Stars
On November 19 my poem Buffalo 3 was published in the fall 2013 “Circus” issue of Lines+Stars Journal. This is the first […]
My poems are published!
I’m now a published poet! Two of my poems were published in this year’s issue of Stylus and one won First Place in […]
Designing “a decade of scribblers”
This year I was hard at work as the Social Media Manager for the Writers’ House. One of my projects this semester […]
Wearing words for a week
A literary journal’s method of spreading stories, poems Marlena Chertock, Editor-in-Chief of The Writers’ Bloc Dylan Bargteil, a Writers’ House alumnus and now […]
Changing careers for the love of poetry
Once a civil engineer, Zein El-Amine made a career switch 5 years ago By Marlena Chertock First published in The Writers’ Bloc. […]
Retaining Your Voice: Gowri Koneswaran Performs at Semester’s Final TerPoets
By Marlena Chertock First published in The Writers’ Bloc. “This next poem has an attitude problem. I have trouble reeling her in,” […]
Reclaiming D.C.’s history: new online resource lists famous local writers
By Marlena Chertock First published in The Writers’ Bloc. This is the first part in a series on the D.C. Writers’ Homes […]
‘Come up here, the stage is yours, share your story’
By Marlena Chertock First published in The Writers’ Bloc. It was his fourth time hosting the open mic night at the Busboys and […]
Struggling with words: Four poets read about displacement
By Marlena Chertock Published first in The Writers’ Bloc. Being exiled or facing obstacles that keep you from returning to your country […]