Category Archives: Writing

In Answer to the Person Who Recently Asked Me What My Poems Are About

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I feared back then a world I couldn’t name, and I’m not sure I can name it even now.

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Rachel Swirsky’s Recommendations for the 2014 Campbell Awards

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Mandolin

There are two weeks left until the end of the Hugo nomination period, and I wanted to blog about some of the awesome writers I’ve found this year or last year who are eligible for the Campbell Award. For those … Continue reading →

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Pre-transition Pronouns: Some Guiding Thoughts

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Grace Annam

A dear cousin of mine, a feminist who was very vocal when I was growing up, did me the courtesy of asking me a question which I paraphrase thus: Thinking of you as Grace is easy enough now, but how … Continue reading →

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The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have written before about how impoverished our vocabulary for love is, and so I found this post on Facebook by Ajam Media Collective absolutely fascinating: Post by Ajam Media Collective. Cross-posted.

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I’m Reading Thursday at Naugatuck Valley Community College

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

If any readers of Alas live in or near Waterbury Connecticut, please come down to Naugatuck Valley Community College for this reading. It would be lovely to see you:

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Rereading the Book Proposal for “Evolving Manhood”

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

So I am gearing up to write a book proposal for work that is connected to my Persian translations (about which more in subsequent posts). I’m using as my reference the same book that I used when I wrote the … Continue reading →

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One of My Poems is Up at The New Verse News

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The New Verse News, a website that publishes “politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues” has just today published the first part of a long poem I have been working on called “Because Fear Now is Never Foreign … Continue reading →

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Limericks for My Son

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

When my son was very young, no older than three, we brought him to a poetry reading that I was part of at St. Mark’s Place in New York City. Reading and reciting poems with me, especially ones that I … Continue reading →

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Learning to Love the Sentence – Prepping ENG 105 (1)

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

For the first time in a long time, I am scheduled to teach ENG 105, Grammar: Structure and Strategy. In the past, I have taught it successfully as a class in parsing sentences, a skill that I first learned in … Continue reading →

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CavanKerry Press Shines the Spotlight on My Poem “Coitus Interruptus”

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

My publisher, CavanKerry Press, posted today a profile of “Coitus Interruptus,” a poem from my first book, The Silence of Men. I was asked to write a little bit about the poem. Here’s an excerpt of what I had to say: … Continue reading →

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