Poetry |
“An Index of Distressed Events”
Poetry |
from “Prisoner’s Cinema”
Fiction |
“Solutions”
“‘What, exactly, were you doing with the knife in the pawn shop less than an hour after you left the fundraiser, if you didn’t steal it?’ the police sergeant later asked the temp …”
Poetry |
“Sunbonnet”
Fiction |
“Sham Couple”
“Nathanael’s mother isn’t dead, she’s just suffering from dementia, but her husband, Achim, is already planning her burial. To be fair, he’s planning his own, too, and even his girlfriend Julika’s …”
Fiction |
“Boats” and “Cove”
“A boat might or might not object to what you name her. And you cannot control what she calls you.”
Interview |
“The Mystery of Persistence” // a Conversation About Poetry with G. C. Waldrep, curated by Victoria Chang
“When I was at Iowa in the MFA program, I was surprised by how many of my peers weren’t waiting to be astonished. As readers, they went to literature for something else.”
Essay |
“Four Music Lessons”
“Without music for two years, thanks to the deafness that’s deepening on me, I’ve recently found that on good days, with the help of high-powered headphones, I can hear it again.”