Sightings / Jon Curley
My grandmother taught me to read in a cemetery in southeastern Massachusetts. She would read the headstones and I would be asked to repeat what she had read. Finally I began to lisp the contents of...
View ArticleFive Lyric Essays / Legacy Russell
MONTAGUES AND CAPULETSShe dreamt of vacuuming and she spoke the words out loud saying, “I am exhausted from cleaning the carpet.” And, “I think the house is crumbling; there is always dust on the...
View ArticleBonding Poets / James Sherry
Bonding PoetsJackson Pollock: “I am nature.”Hans Hoffman: “Ah, but if you work by heart, you will repeat yourself.” Noted biologist Richard Lewontin writes in the NYRB, May 27, 2010, “Nothing creates...
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Salvatore and The Second-Person Narrative / Shannon Peebles
VendorTo Assume a Pleasing Shape (American Readers Series)Joseph SalvatoreJoseph Salvatore playfully experiments with various perspectives in his anthology, To Assume a Pleasing Shape, including the...
View ArticleAdventure Capital #1 / Shathley Q
"Welcome to Yesteryear, Actus Primus"March 12, 2009 feels real and solid and sober in my hand like a gun in those first microseconds of recoil. Not the day itself, but "March 12, 2009" the episode of...
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Sisters / Andrea Scrima
VendorA Lesser DayAndrea ScrimaSistersCan you imagine if you were someone else? I used to think about that a lot, that it could be just as natural to be gazing down at a completely different big toe—I...
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