Dash of Dash: The Lyric Art of Punctuation
Heidi Czerwiec writes about the complexities and beauties of punctuation in lyrical writing:
“Punctuation began as a guide to reading aloud, akin to musical notation, indicating breath breaks and rhetorical shifts, differences in pitch: verbal stage directions. Punctuation as punctum, existing all at one point, until… expanding infinitely outward across the emptiness of the page’s space, inflecting it with flavors of pause and visibility.”
2022 Fourth Genre Prize Winners
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize and Multimedia Essay Prize We are thrilled to announce and give our congratulations to
Dash of Dash: A Craft Essay by Heidi Czerwiec
A Dash of Dash: The Lyric Art of Punctuation With apologies to Noah Lukeman By Heidi Czerwiec Before evolving to mark syntax for you, silent
Drawing the Mall by Brian Kearney
Drawing the Mall By Brian Kearney Winner of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Here’s what our judge, Kristen Radke, had to say about it:
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