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Creative Writing at NEIU
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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 9h
The Editors | Tony Harrison 1937-2025
Tony Harrison died last week at the age of 88. The LRB published nearly thirty of his poems, from v. in January 1985 to...
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 10h
From Natasha Stagg, a Robitussin Nightmare of a Sophomore Novel
Composed of brief, unenumerated and untitled chapters, "Grand Rapids" sloshes, spills and builds toward a late-in-the-novel climax.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
Assata Is Welcome Here • Protean Magazine
In late September, black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. ...
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke
October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”
www.theparisreview.org
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
www.theguardian.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
Venetian Vespers
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindran…
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel
When I was thirty-eight years old, in late 2017, it began to feel inexcusable that I was living out my entire life in the typical American fashion: speaking a single language. After all, I spent si…
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character
I have always been fascinated by the question of whether our lives are determined by fate or by choice. In the final installment of The Dalton Novels, a trilogy about a small town in Maine, my char…
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 13h
To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe
Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 17h
Nelson Algren Committee Anniversary Celebration | Clara
A celebration of Chicago's greatest novelist. A festival of culture, history and community.  Featuring music, a reading from “Chicago: City on the Make” by actor Gary Houston, a film by Tom Palazzolo,...
www.clarachicago.com
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Larry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social · 17h
Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras.
www.wsj.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 17h
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on the Practice of Startlement
How poetry can help us decenter ourselves and find greater connection
tricycle.org
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 18h
1369: Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell
Today’s poem is Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell.
www.slowdownshow.org
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 18h
If We Knew Then by Gil Arzola - Rattle: Poetry
what we know now then Ernie would never have paid attention in math class, he would have lived inside a daydream and counted the birds outside the window instead of calculating angles.
rattle.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 18h
William Cordeiro Interview -
Will Cordeiro is the author of the poetry collection Trap Street, winner of the Able Muse Book Award (2021), and the fiction collection Whispering Gallery (DUMBO Press, 2024) as well as co-author of E...
litfoxbooks.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 18h
Poets on Translation: A Strawberry-Flavored Sigh
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 18h
Under the Bodhi Tree
"Đợi chờ là hạnh phúc," a Vietnamese proverb tells me that waiting is happiness.
poems.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 19h
Half-light
and God said Let there be light / and we stood before the sun
poets.org
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
South Carolina Students and Librarians Sue State Education Superintendent Over Book Bans
South Carolina public school students and school librarians file a lawsuit against the state's education superintendent over book bans.
bookriot.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
Chipping Sparrow
On the subject of assurance I should have I should have
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned
This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...
www.mcsweeneys.net
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
Book censorship in US schools has become 'rampant and common', free speech advocates warn
Since July 2021, PEN America has documented more than 22,800 cases of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school districts.
www.usatoday.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet” - Chicago Review of Books
The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly t...
chireviewofbooks.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 1d
The Violent, Hilarious Return of “Hothead Paisan”
Diane DiMassa’s “homicidal lesbian terrorist” was a star of underground comics in the nineties, but her “rage therapy” has lost none of its edge.
www.newyorker.com