On the Critic in a Changing Literary Landscape
Sean MurphyIt was, I can assure you, both an honor and delight to moderate this discussion on (obligatory quotation marks) “the role of the critic” but, of course, this also involved…
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH, AUTHOR OF ‘BLUE ATLAS’
It's a tradition that began last year, and I hope we repeat every year: making sure we properly acknowledge National Poetry Month by celebrating the work of an amazing contemporary…
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH CYNTHIA MANICK, AUTHOR OF ‘NO SWEET WITHOUT BRINE’
The 1455 Author Series rolls on, and what better way to kick off this year's programming than with poetry? Even better, I had the opportunity to speak with a poet…
2023: A Creative Recap
Kicking off '23 in Todos Santos From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 15 (peruse the complete archives, here): The State of the Art, right now, is a sum total of every individual…
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN P. KIERNAN, AUTHOR OF ‘THE GLASS CHATEAU’
It's always a special joy to welcome writers back into the 1455 program schedule! This, to be certain, was not my first rodeo with the wonderful author Stephen Kiernan; we…
Moby Dick, Martin Scorsese, and Making a Literary Life
Image courtesy of The New Yorker November 14, 1851 Quick, literary folks: why is this date important? Hint: Call Me Ishmael. Yes, on this day 172 years ago, Herman Melville…
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ALYSON WEINBERG, AUTHOR OF ‘BELLOW & HISS’
Check it out: Alyson Gold Weinberg serves as a poetic tour guide for how it feels and what it signifies to be a human being, taking us from embryos to…
The Story of Story
What’s my story? What are you going to do, teach? This was the question. It’s what everyone asked, what everyone thought, how everyone assumed things worked: you get a degree in the…
Poetry at the Peter Bullough Foundation
It has been my extreme pleasure to collaborate with (and enthusiastically support) Winchester’s Petter Bullough Foundation. More about their history and mission here, and some previous programming we’ve done together, featuring the…