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I typed, Are you aging? Are you tired and worn? Do you spend all your time fretting about the fine lines on your face and how they foretell the slow and steady march toward death or, worse, that moment when the world will turn its eyes from your old & unbeautiful face?
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The lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
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Proximity to disaster is inevitable.
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A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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The Membranes is a climate novel not because it contends with catastrophe, but because it shows that everydayness has a way of proceeding alongside disaster.
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You want to, but do you? Do you dare hope?
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Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
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Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.
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This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
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“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
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Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
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“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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Howard Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
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“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
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And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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