How I Wrote It: We Left the Garden

Charles Simic famously said that the prose poem “has the unusual distinction of being regarded with suspicion not only by … More

Battle of the Bards

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” —W. H. Auden A recent … More

Their eyes were on me like little cocktail cherries swirling around the glass. Fat with moisture, almost pink, And I … More

Books Read: Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation by Emily Van Duyne, Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, The Obscene Madame D … More

Author’s Note: This morning, at 4:23am, my little brother was born. There are twenty-seven years between us, and this is … More

Author’s Note: ‘Aberconwy Fable’ was originally published in the Bel Espirit Newspaper. I am a frequent writer for their magazine, … More

In response to the 2024 Presidential Election Pumpkins sallow on the doorstep of mono America.A womb is now a rental … More

Books Read: New York City 1979 by Kathy Acker, Modern Nature by Derek Jarman, The Haunting of Hill House by … More

Exit Satan’s Men Cento April is the colonnade of rain keeping us warm with dried tubers. Between rosed lips, stillness … More

The funeral eye sleeps like a criminal Sources: