George MacDonald and Fantasy – By Kenny Chumbley

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The Formula for Fantasy – By Kenny Chumbley

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  All fairy tales are fantasy, but not all fantasies are fairy tales. Fairy tales require fairy folk (elves, gnomes, etc.). The Three Little Pigs...

The Personality of Phantasy – By Kenny Chumbley

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              My qualifications for writing about fantasy literature/fairy tales are slight. As a child, I wore out the Whitman...

Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions – By Jim...

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  Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...

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  In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds an...

When Earth and Sky Intermingle : Science and Poetry – By Michael G. Smith

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Poetry has never revealed its full face to anyone. Its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It defies any attempt at a...

Notes on Conceptual Fiction – By Ted Gioia

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1. Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic?  After all, there are no Newtonian laws in stories—an...

The Rise of the Cli-Fi Literary Genre – By Danny Bloom

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As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late 1990s, the global landscape of cultural production started to teem...

What is a Poem ? – By Michael Angel Martin

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What Is a Poem? Not Sure. But Let Me Count the Ways       One of the best lessons I have learned as a writer of...

Translation as Transhumance – By Mireille Gansel (Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz)...

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(In this beautiful memoir of a life lived in and through translation, Mireille Gansel defines the process of bringing words from one language to...