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.”
Fiction |
“At The Last”
“‘I don’t want to be married anymore.’ Is that how he said it? Or was it the harder, the more particular, ‘I don’t want to be married to you anymore’? He doesn’t remember.”
Poetry |
“The Auspices”
Poetry |
Five Poems by Sergei Yesenin
“Yesenin called himself ‘the last poet of the village,’ both in the sense of his peasant origins and of being the last poet of his contemporaries concerned with country life …”