(Seattle, WA: Wave Books: 2019) Earlier this year, @KylePlantEmoji tweeted: Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don’t. As in, some people’s thoughts are like sentences they “hear,” and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and … Continued
Ruth Danon (Word Has It) and Cassandra Cleghorn (Four Weathercocks) interviewed one another about their books, slow writing, visceral abstractions, outfoxing oneself, bird-ing and word-ing, and finding home in the “claw and scramble” of making a poem. In the process … Continued
The Husband & I stand next to each other: not speaking, sometimes speaking. See? Asks the photograph. A closeness or almostness? The photograph is meaningless except insofar as it is a record of us in a place at a moment … Continued
The light was mocking and complicit; it shone a requiem between the girl’s stiffening hands. the boy set about writing. he dictated his memories to the airless quiet, to the ashes, to destiny’s whispering ways, this gloomy exclamation point, the … Continued
No nail to spark the fires, no waists to nip in. There will not be cookery or starguide, no petite or hardiness in lace, hardly an elegance. No celebrities for the TV. No dogeared books on floral arrangement or patched … Continued
JENNY OFFILL & CERIDWEN MORRIS Discussions about motherhood are cluttered with logistics, dark nuances, and commiseration. They are frequently conducted under the punch-drunk fog of sleeplessness, grammar-addling distraction, and amazement. Discussions about creativity and motherhood are even more fraught—almost … Continued
INVISIBLE CITIES We explore the architecture, landscapes, new horizons of art. With new work by John Kinsella, Eric Barnes, Stephen O’Connor, Collier Nogues, Benjamin Sutton, Erica Anzalone, Geoffrey Nutter, Rachel Zucker