WRITING OUT OF THE PIG PEN
Author Doug Crandel Speaks On Writing, Life & More

There’s always a certain risk to putting yourself out there. There is the risk that someone, somewhere might see you for who you really are.  But, this is what author Doug Crandell, who has absolutely no reservations when it comes to showing the world exactly who he is, writes about.  Taking no interest in the perfect people of the world, he prefers boogers and broken birdie fingers to beauty; oily hair, disabilities and big ears to big names and do-gooder Hollywood types. More...

AMONG OTHER THINGS
Author Marlon James Talks Blogging Among Other Things

Blogs are seemingly everywhere now a days. Blogs are used for many things, photoblogs, poetry and even fiction, but mainly they turn negative and are usually dipping into the hideous world of celebritie's business via it’s equally hideous spokes person (I’m talking to you Perez Hilton). Art Nouveau Magazine caught up with blogger and author extraordinaire Marlon James to get his views on blogging and he tells us a too much among other things. More...

VISUAL POETRY
Poet & Critic Geof Huth Explains What It Is & Is Not

I have already written about 1500 words on visual poetry today, as a comment on Harriet (the Poetry Foundation’s blog), so rather than begin again to think up words and sequences of words for the day, I will use what I’ve already written, putting it into a little context first.On the 17th of March (two weeks ago), Don Share asked, while also specifically making reference to visual poetry, “How do spaces mean in a poem?” This simple question in a short posting engendered nearly two dozen responses, some of them quite lengthy. More...

DON'T LET YOUR MAMA READ THIS
An Exclusive Interview With Writer Hadjii

After reading Hadjii’s Don’t Let My Mama Read This: A Southern Fried Memoir I thought instantly, I wouldn’t even let my mama read this—I call her Mommy by the way. But that’s not because it’s not good, in fact, Hadjii’s work is the opposite—like a breath of fresh air. But the many expletives in the work itself may turn off the faint at heart. More...

THE ART OF PWOERMDS
Writer Geof Huth Explains Minimalist Poets

Minimalist poets work with a tiny number of words in each poem, trying to wrest some eternal insight out of the smallest of spaces. The tendency towards minimalism, which was a hallmark of much of twentieth-century art, seems empty to many people, who see minimalism as an anti-art trick. But minimalism is serious play, making it among the purest of the arts. More...

CORMAC MCCARTHY
And The Semi-Colon

Mithridates has sent me the link to Cormac McCarthy's interview with Oprah Winfrey, here—you have to join Oprah's book club, but membership is free. Oprah asked McCarthy about punctuation. He said at one point, he had a job he was working for someone who was writing a book that included excerpts from 18th-century writers and he was given an assignment: Go away and fix the punctuation. So, he read the texts. More...

BORN BY A RIVER
Poetry By KWhy

Kyle KWhy Myers is the author of Born by a River a collection of poems "addressing the obstacles that has had such a negative impact on many people’s lives." Myers has given Art Nouveau Magazine three poems from that collection, Riotously Speaking, Overcome and Your Finest Remedy to share with our readers. More...