Archive - Ok, But How?

Hari Alluri Reconnected with the Source Code

I’ve worked outdoors quite a bit in my lifetime, and if you walk around with a rake, you will find things to rake up. If you have a sonnet, you’ll find…

Apr 21

February 2025

Abbie Kiefer Had to Figure out Why Television Was Important to a Book About Grief and Hope

At the center of this book are my mom’s illness and death—a process of loss that made me easily distracted. I couldn’t write or read, so I stuck to what…

Feb 24

Fried Shallots, Chaos Thresholds

So, welcome to a new series: A COOKBOOK AND A CRAFT BOOK in which I share notes on one cookbook and one craft book (which I understand broadly as…

Feb 15 •

January 2025

A.E. Osworth Had Planned to Write a Romp

This book was supposed to be fun (and don’t worry, I think it turned out fun in the end). But I was inputting a huge amount of pandemic news every day…

Jan 30

Roasted Root Vegetables with Lemony Black Kale and Delicious Salty Things

Here’s what you need:Some beets, carrots, or other root vegetables. Potatoes, sure. Parsnips, why not? A winter squash like kabocha would be fine too…

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Nancy Reddy Grabbed a Stack of Index Cards and a Roll of Painter's Tape

The index cards forced a measure of economy, since I couldn’t explain the nuance of a study or wax poetic, and taping them up meant I could easily move…

Dec 27, 2024 •

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November 2024

Lois Eustis Tate Needed to Be More Forthcoming About Who She Was

I began by working on the level of the scene, learning those building blocks. I wrote scenes from Wayne’s point of view, based on events he described in…

Nov 27, 2024 •

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My Tenure Tattoo

I perched in the padded tattoo chair grateful for the lymph, the healthy white blood cells rising up to the surface that allowed my skin to take the…

Nov 14, 2024 •

October 2024

Holly Flauto Got Tired of Filling in the Blanks with the "Right" Answer

The answers to the blanks on the immigration application have burst out of their normal official structures into poems—each one stretching out in a…

Oct 18, 2024

September 2024

Anna Henderson Was Finally Able to Drop the Shark

I bring readers into the research and discovery process of science and behind the scenes in the work of politics. I wrote the book with my old field…

Sep 17, 2024 •

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Anna Farro Henderson

August 2024

Oliver Baez Bendorf Was Awakened by the Rooster's Crow

The collection explores ecological consciousness and the construction of criminality, asking who is entitled to peace and who faces scrutiny.

Aug 20, 2024

July 2024

"I’ve had to fight for this time but also accept that what’s possible shifts from season to season."

poet and professor Bronwen Tate on the "beautiful exhaustion" of life with small children and how her daughter's artwork reminds her that "ideas come in…

Published on Write More, Be Less Careful • Jul 30, 2024

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