Fiction |
from Vienna
“I was forty-one years old, wore a hijab, and looked stylish in it. I spoke French, but I didn’t apply for a visa to a country that spoke the language I’d learned, because I found something vastly more entertaining here.”
Poetry |
“Driving Directions”
Poetry |
“Dominion”
Interview |
“I Couldn’t Look Away”: A Conversation with Kathleen McGookey
“When you become a parent, what’s essential is what you’re going to get done. That same thing is happening in my poems. They’re including only the essential detail and emotion.”
Essay |
“Before I Let You Go”
“One year, my class, known as problematic for being easily distracted and causing disruptions that made us hard to teach, wasn’t assigned a homeroom teacher hired to break us. Mr. Lovette, that teacher, lacked bulk and a bulldog face.”
Poetry |
“Gilgamesh” and “Midas”
Poetry |
“Six O’Clock” and “Midtown”
Fiction |
“More Harm Than Good” and “Late August Edition”
“My roommate’s dissertation included a multimodal component where I was asked to pee on an upholstered wing chair. Even after a quart of Hawaiian Punch I was unable to perform.”
Poetry |
“Fake News Bus Stop Prayer”
Interview |
“Genes, Grief, Poetic Form, and Love: A Conversation with Charlotte Pence”
“We carry ‘home’ within us through our ancestors’ DNA. And that goes for those whom we love as well – they’re always with us, even when they’re not.”
Essay |
“I Found A Tarantula”
“As Dylan writes in the prose poem ‘Ape on Sunday’ — ‘tho I might be nothing but a butter sculptor, i refuse to go on working with the idea of your praising as my reward — like what are your credentials anyway?'”
Poetry |
“Bookish”
Poetry |
“The impossible in which I believe”
celebrating the birth of Jorge Luis Borges on August 24, 1899 …