Poetry |
“Carried Away”
Poetry |
“Elegy”
Essay |
on “Poems Not Written” / a recurring feature On The Seawall
“But the more I looked at the draft, the more squeamish I got. Wasn’t this a gross appropriation of a survivor’s narrative?”
Fiction |
“to team” and “to meme”
“Gander argues that the meme wasn’t about the company. ‘It’s just like … a funny picture.'”
Poetry |
“At The Dealership”
Essay |
“City Where the Pennies Look Out for You”
“… my wife walked past Chase Bank and the man, somehow still standing there, asked, ‘Can I have a dollar? You promised that you’d give me a dollar tonight and right now is tonight.'”
Essay |
on “Poems Not Written” / a recurring feature On The Seawall
“I read the lines to my father on his last day. Then I stopped working on it and for forty years it stayed in the folder that could have been labelled ‘orphan inspirations’ …”
Poetry |
“Pacemaker” and “Limited Characters”
Poetry |
“Cinnamon” and “I Love Your Teeth”
Essay |
“Travel from Pittsburgh [again] / Writing the Versions: A Recurrence of Variation”
“All night the driver continued through the unknown knowing then it was there — when the weight of migration pushed the people onward in the remains of what was left. And the car kept following the tunnel of its headlights in the recurrence of a winter storm.”
Interview |
A Conversation with Megha Majumdar
“I started writing my novel several years ago, paying attention to how state oppressive systems operate upon certain groups of people — and now the book is launching into a similar moment of examination and attention paid to these discriminatory oppressive systems.”