Poetry |
“Blame”
Essay |
“The Reading”
“Atmospheric, was what someone’d said when it was all over, which I repeated the next day on the phone to M from Spain who was talking about the Argentine and his fetishes.”
Poetry |
“My Mother’s Autograph Album”
Poetry |
“The Coming of the Jellyfish”
Poetry |
“Vashti Refuses the King’s Summons”
Essay |
“Patience”
“Birdwatching is the neighborhood sport. It’s ‘exercise even,’ their shaggy, silver-haired neighbor Eddie says at the patio table, ‘with all that looking up and pointing.’ He’s got two bright rows of teeth he keeps readjusting.”
Interview |
“Don’t Disturb This Groove”: A Conversation with Major Jackson
“I often seek metaphorical language that could open up possibilities of understanding my nature, all the suffering as well as the ecstatic. That search becomes a singular obsession, for it is where readers experience eternity, where mysteries are revealed.”
Essay |
“Fragments from Dancing in Russia after The Fall of the Berlin Wall”
“There are many Palaces of Culture in Russia. We rehearse in six of them. All have grand entryways but the bathroom floors are flooded with brown water.”
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.'”