Posts tagged "Brenda Miller"

Ghost: The Flash Ending That Appears from Nowhere

For a while, I’ve been contemplating flash essays as fireworks. It isn’t difficult to imagine the shortest of micros, say 100 words or less, as a salute: a bang so loud and a flare so quick, it bumps in your chest, a physical response to the discomfort of it. I can see the more traditional...

Structure: Lifeblood of the Lyric Essay

Writing mostly poetry for the last two years, I had pretty much given up on prose. Until I met the lyric essay. It was as if I found myself a new lover. I was on a cloud-nine high: I didn’t have to write a tightly knitted argument required of a critical essay. I could loosely...