by runestone admin | Jul 23, 2020
Like many, I need some background noise while I’m writing. It could be the hum of a coffee shop or a tv on in another room, as long as it’s something not too distracting, I’m happy. But my favorite thing to write to is classical music. I’ve been studying classical...
by RS Admin | May 28, 2020
The Only Worlds We Know Micheal Lee Button Poetry Fall 2019 ISBN: 978-1-943735-60-0 92 Pages Reviewed by K McCLENDON If you are profoundly lucky, grief is something you know in name only. It has not yet made a home in the heart where someone you used to love once...
by RS Admin | May 14, 2020
From the cinnamon challenge that had you gasping for breath in the half finished basement of the kid down the block to #thefloorislavachallenge #2k17, people these days no longer throw down their gauntlets or draw lines in the sand. Challenges take place on social...
by RS Admin | Apr 16, 2020
The Collected Schizophrenias Esmé Weijun Wang Graywolf Press February 2019 ISBN 1-555978273 224 Reviewed by ELIOT JOY I bought my copy of The Collected Schizophrenias in spring of 2019 at a small, local bookshop with a flutter of hope in my chest. It’s rare to find...
by RS Admin | Mar 19, 2020
Work has been cancelled. School has been cancelled. Indeed life as we know it has been cancelled. Many of you might even be social distancing at home in your childhood bedrooms, away from your friends and writing community. Today, Runestone is here to offer you a...
by RS Admin | Jan 16, 2020
There is a box, buried deep in my closet that contains easily hundreds of letters I have received over the course of my life – from pen pals, for birthdays, from kids I’ve babysat, even the occasional scrap of paper with a scrawled sentence passed to me in class. I...
