“I love reading work that surprises me and makes me think, "Oh, I didn't know I could do that!" Some examples would be the use of emoticons and text speak in poems, or new forms being invented like the pecha kucha or the duplex.”

Write your story to the end. Then go back and revise.

I am very interested in writing about those moments when people judge each other, exploring how people’s judgments of others reflect on their own character and understanding.

The shape of violence lives invisibly inside of a woman. Now, the narrator is sharing a sliver of that burden with the perpetrator, and they are both wearing it, or are about to, publicly: she as the author; he, as a man with a pseudonym who has willingly submitted to being interviewed by the woman he wronged when she was a girl.”

Please take a moment to consider and appreciate how the Department of Motor Vehicles has influenced contemporary poetry.

Dorothy Spears (illustration by Kendra Allenby)