“History is a Needle for Putting Men Asleep”
After Leonard Cohen The mind keeps thinking and thinking itself into and out of existence, uncertain, invisible. In the wreckage …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
How Fiction Works
After Terrance Hayes Born lost and translucent with heartache, at war with what it means to be alive, frostbitten with …
This Year of the Saw
After Camille T. Dungy Is this the year for understanding? The smell of catastrophe, in all dimensions, descends like age. …
High Wire
Tensed and static as statues, angel-gray with use, we make our way across the wire with cauterized senses. Nights and …
May Flowers
After Susan Stewart I sometimes think of another place, another world, another life, somewhere with wild things hurtling through thickets, …
Poetry on the run 