You want to write, but can’t seem to get started. What if what’s stopping you is you? Poet Joshua Weiner talks about how to get out of your own way when you’re stuck. He shows us what can result when you take critical reading to the next level in this Inspiration Takeover, a series of mini-episodes with different writers who offer us a little dose of inspiration.
Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poems, a book of prose about the refugee crisis in Europe, and his translation of Nelly Sachs's Flight & Metamorphosis is forthcoming. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Larry Levis Award from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. He has served residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and spent a year in Berlin on an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He is the poetry editor of Tikkun magazine and is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.
