Juliana Gray Q&A with advice to young writers
Juliana Gray offers some advice to young writers.
Matt OD
from Radioactive Wolves: A Retelling
I Chernobyl Zone, 1986- Do not believe me. I was not there. I was pulping rotten quinces. I did not know. Just as those who were there did not know. * It was a sacred lie, the lightning rod. The radioactive shock forgotten before it happened. * (Moscow hospital, May […]
Mihaela Moscaliuc on her poem ‘Immigrant Model’
Mihaela Moscaliuc talks about the genesis of her poem “Immigrant Model.”
Mihaela Moscaliuc on determining form
Mihaela Moscaliuc talks about determining the form a poem will take.
How to Ask for My Hand at My Grandmother’s Grave
“What a waste of space,” you murmur as the train cuts through a cemetery whose halves rest like drowsy wings between two pine forests, then “spooky” as our window zips by faces smiling from porcelain plates glued to crosses. You’ve crossed the ocean to marry me, so I cannot say I knew only one […]
Immigrant Model
Berenson recalls how once, upon seeing a counterfeit, he felt an immediate discomfort in his stomach, and that is what she feels these mornings, cropped at wrong angles in the hallway mirror, chipped stars in her hair, skin almost translucent— a shade darker before it touches air, the gnawing in her belly thrumming as she […]
Memoir
Romanian dictators Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu were executed on December 25, 1989, after […]
Emily Vizzo Q&A on her poem ‘Theodore Roosevelt never returned’
Emily Vizzo talks about the genesis of her poem “Theodore Roosevelt never returned to Panama; he never saw the Panama Canal.”