Poetry |
“Still Life: Interior”
Poetry |
“Misery” and “Cat’s Paws”
Fiction |
“Breath Versus Sound”
“The flyer had read simply, ‘meditation group.’ There’d been nothing about chanting, nothing advertising that this might be a cult.”
Fiction |
“Foreign Body”
“She thought, it’s hard being a foreign body these days. She thought, if it were up to me, I’d move from one body to the next, making a home out of everybody.”
Poetry |
“Night After Night,” “Examination,” “Need Be” and “Lord”
“Last night, the moon dropped its clothes in the street where the trees cast a near light, making you leave the experiment radiant and silent. Hand yourself a coin.”
Poetry |
“At Seneca Lake”
Essay |
Life’s Work: on the Poetry of Jane Mead
“Jane Mead brought her five books of poetry and 14 new poems into To the Wren: Collected & New Poems, 1991-2019. She died less than a month after its publication.”
Essay |
“Making Wondrous” and “Now This Light”
“… the newborn foals leaping for the first time into the tree-line, that bandwidth of blood-red marking the whole world with her precious hooves like notes of earth music and Nureyev song soaring in the saplings of her legs …”
Essay |
“Elizabeth Warren’s Withdrawal from the Race Isn’t Just Bad for Women. It’s Bad for Men.”
“When our beating hearts are not drowned out by the sound of us being beaten down, men start to hear their own heartbeats, too.”
Interview |
A Conversation with Lydia Davis
“For a long time, Grace Paley’s approach was my model: politics, family, and friendships first — and writing second. I may have that wrong, or may be idealizing, but that seems to me at the moment a good balance.”
Fiction |
“Weapons” and “The Sentence”
“The woman kept talking about passion; her four kids were her greatest passion, she said, but also her thriving real estate business, that was her passion, too.”