Kelsie Hahn’s fiction chapbook Responsibility is available from Lit House Press. Her reviews have also appeared in Pank,Heavy Feather Review, The Collagist, Puerto del Sol, and Necessary Fiction. She holds an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University and lives in Houston, Texas. More at www.kelsiehahn.com.
Dark Elderberry Branch is a collaboration between two living poets and one who is dead but fully present. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa (former Soviet Union, in the Ukraine),…
Visiting the Taos Pueblo (“an ancient community continuously inhabited for 100 years”) on San Geronimo Day, I was frightened by the Sacred Clowns (Koshares). The list of rules for visitors…
But even here, vertigo and ambivalence dominate, and I find myself searching the poems for the kinetic energy of a walker in the city; heel marks and muddy droplets. I…