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Charles Wright (Dan Addison/Courtesy UVA Today)

Charles Wright: New US Poet Laureate

June 13, 2014

We are thrilled to congratulate Charles Wright on his appointment to the post of US Poet Laureate. A frequent contributor to VQR since the 1990s, Wright writes elegantly and powerfully about—in his words—“landscape, language, and the idea of Go [...]

Chuck Wendig

Writer Dad: Chuck Wendig

March 18, 2014

Editor’s note: Writer Dad is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the real challenges are, and how it affects both their writing and parenting. Read previous installments w [...]

Ro Cuzon

Writer Dad: Ro Cuzon

December 12, 2013

Editor’s note: Writer Dad is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the real challenges are, and how it affects both their writing and parenting. You can read more about how [...]

Joshua Casteel (1979-2012)

September 20, 2012

Editor's note: VQR was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Joshua Casteel, a contributor to our pages. We asked one of his friends, Christopher Merrill at the University of Iowa, to offer a few words in memory of him. What shall we do? T [...]

D. H. Lawrence in VQR

May 17, 2010

The author and the young magazine were a perfect fit—a writer known for his insistence on challenging convention and a publication establishing itself as a progressive voice of the South.

Sherwood Anderson in VQR

April 12, 2010

A brief look at Sherwood Anderson's contributions to VQR, featuring his original manuscripts and VQR’s correspondence with him.

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