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& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
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I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
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Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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A fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
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Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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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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A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.
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To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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Donika Kelly discusses her new poetry collection, THE RENUNCIATIONS.
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Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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Kendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
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“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
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Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
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Vince Granata discusses his debut memoir, EVERYTHING IS FINE.
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Ronit Plank discusses her new memoir, WHEN SHE COMES BACK.
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Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
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I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”
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Jeannine Ouelette discusses her debut memoir, THE PART THAT BURNS.
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Beth Kephart discusses her new memoir, WIFE | DAUGHTER | SELF.
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“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
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Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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