by Andy Brown | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Of all the criticisms you could make of my work, the one I’m most sensitive to is “There’s nothing going on here. Nothing is happening.” When I was a young writer, I developed a lot of good writing habits. I learned not to censor myself. I...
by Andy Brown | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m a fan of small books — novellas, chapbooks, anything that can be read in one sitting. Lazarillo de Tormes and El Buscón are two of my favorites and not just because they’re short. They’re also funny. In El Buscón the title character falls...
by Andy Brown | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the book Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature 1860-1912, Susanna Fessler identifies two central features of Japanese travel literature: 1) uta makura (codified poetic references) and 2) meisho (famous travel places). She writes: “Most...
by Andy Brown | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Poetry Mode started as a Facebook page in 2017. I was tired of submitting poems to journals, then waiting weeks, months or, in one case, nearly two years to get a response, especially when the response was a rejection. Even when my poems were accepted, the wait...