4 Mistakes You’re Making in Your Cover Letter

4 Mistakes You’re Making in Your Cover Letter

Although no two cover letters are exactly alike, there are certain mistakes that seem to surface over and over again.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Dahlia Seroussi

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Dahlia Seroussi

"As someone who is pretty attached to reality, it felt very transgressive to “write away” from my experience—but it was also liberating."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jacob Sunderlin

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jacob Sunderlin

"But form is best for me when it’s the most invisible, and the single-stanza whoosh is somehow both almost-invisible in its proximity to prose as well as it is hyper-visible in its looking like a brick wall."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Sharon Dilworth

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Sharon Dilworth

"I tend to transform and twist the more immediate narratives into something unrecognizable from reality. Over time nostalgia pushes me toward the truth."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrea Cheatham

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrea Cheatham

"If anything, the American Dream in this story is as elusive for me, my grandmother, and Catherine as it was for Gatsby. You never reach it, or never feel yourself to have reached it. It only exists as a possibility, not really as a clean and finished fact.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Eric Cruz

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Eric Cruz

"This newness is incremental and barely perceptible in real time, but the speaker in each section conveys an understanding and, I think, an appreciation for their transformation.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Joannie Stangeland

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Joannie Stangeland

"For example, “shroud, shrugged” really takes some time to say out loud, because you have to use your whole mouth."

The Case for Paying Writers

The Case for Paying Writers

In the face of such real and seemingly insurmountable financial barriers to do so, literary magazines—and I mean all of them, at least those who have been around for more than a year—can and should pay their contributing writers for their work.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Devi Laskar

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Devi Laskar

"I wanted to write a collage poem about how people have a habit of ranking things—the items on their bucket lists, their favorite foods, their favorite sports teams."

Interview Excerpt: Lori Ostlund

Interview Excerpt: Lori Ostlund

Once, as we passed Sauk Centre on a rare family outing, my father said to me, "You know that Sinclair Lewis got run out of town for his books. Maybe someday you'll write a book that gets you run out of town."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Matthew Vollmer

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Matthew Vollmer

"As a writer, I have been slowly but steadily scrolling backward in time." 

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Fiona Inglis

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Fiona Inglis

"I suppose I wanted the definite 'A' to represent all the little personal distances that inevitably occur as a product of being physically apart."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Melissa Stephenson

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Melissa Stephenson

"As far as range and scope are concerned, those things are in constant focus in the West, where you can spot a snowstorm moving in from miles away, and the Rocky Mountains loom large on dark mornings as I walk my kids to school." 

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kevin McLellan

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kevin McLellan

"The slash is often in cahoots with enjambment and this creates more emphasis, or even pressure, on the neighboring language."

A Personal Rejection from Carve: The 7 Stages of Grief

A Personal Rejection from Carve: The 7 Stages of Grief

Some rejections are harder to shake, often because we were that close to an acceptance.

Carve Staff Recommendations: What to Read in the New Year

Carve Staff Recommendations: What to Read in the New Year

Below are some of our staff favorites, the best books we read in 2016.

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Elizabeth Cook

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Elizabeth Cook

"In this essay, my limited understanding of the internet means that Google becomes the mystical made prosaic. I don’t understand Google, and maybe I fear it, but the search engine is like an external self or a communal self without a body." 

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Sasha West

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Sasha West

"I think all loss has an echo and an endlessness."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jennifer Newhouse

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jennifer Newhouse

"I think as a society, we're always trying to be useful, to be helpful, but so often, our loved ones — in whatever ways they are suffering — just want to know they're not alone. True presence is courageous."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kathryn Smith

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kathryn Smith

"The relationships between animals can seem quite savage when viewed up close. They become even more savage when a child is also watching and asks why."

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