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.”
Poetry |
“A Georgic for Sally and Darla”
Fiction |
“June 19, 2865”
“Air-crafts peppered the sky with a clear mandate: showcase the moment enslaved Americans learned of their freedom …”
Essay |
on Poems Not Written / a recurring feature On The Seawall
“I don’t feel that we get to choose the emphasis of the book that we are writing. But we can choose the thematic thrust when it begins to shape itself.”
Fiction |
“Capital”
“It is true that, for a time, the Wikipedia page for Noble County, Indiana claimed that it was the meth capital of the world, but, says the county’s Chief Information Technology Officer, Fortunately, it’s easy to correct such mistakes …”