Alexis Orgera's poems, essays, and reviews have most recently appeared in <emAnother Chicago Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Drunken Boat, Forklift Ohio, Memorious, and Prairie Schooner. She is the author of two books of poetry, How Like Foreign Objects (H_ngm_n Books) and Dust Jacket (Coconut Books). She can be found online at alexisorgera.com.
It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those…
The field is integral, too, to Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice—the field of vision, field of the empty page and of the populated page, field of self/ body/maker, absence of field.…
Figure, noun, a person’s bodily shape or a person seen indistinctly, especially at a distance. A representation of a human in a drawing or a sculpture, a shape defined by…