Fiction |
“Fisher Queen,” “High Priestess” and “The Tale of the Plague Doctor”
“… until one day I go to the spring house and there is a man in the water, naked, with silver minnows darting around his face, moss streaming around him …”
Poetry |
“Assisted Living”
Fiction |
“The vibraphone of God”
“The Kid, he had drive. He would flip what records he had until his dad could take him out to see more stacks.”
Poetry |
Selections from études
Poetry |
“The Middle 1950s”
Essay |
“Russian Lines and American Lines: Traveling America with Sergey Gandlevsky”
“The name Gandlevsky comes from the Ukrainian word meaning revenue or earnings. They must have been peddlers of some sort. ‘Do you know what this means?’ he explained. ‘I was born to be a charlatan!'”
Poetry |
“Self Portrait as Fear of the Dark”
Interview |
The Black Book Interactive Project: A Talk With The Scholars
“BBIP created a pipeline for new critical discoveries by examining novels that hadn’t been subjected to extensive data analysis. The metadata schema unlocks information not visibly associated with race. Diving deep into the work tells us more about literary culture and responses.”
Essay |
“No Finer Form” and “Misfits”
“Then they argue over whether Poseidon or Neptune is the god of the sea, refusing to believe that it’s both.”
Essay |
“Banding”
“Someone posted today that ICE vans were out in force, hunting the valley for illegals …”