January 24, 2018
For those interested in discussions of power and craft and liberatory aesthetics, you may have been following the covfefe--sorry, the kerfuffle--over Sadia Shepard's story, "Foreign-Returned," in The New Yorker. Shepard's story is a retelling of a Mavis Gallant story, and the Francine Prose of Reading Like a Writer accused Shepard and The New Yorker of plagiarism. Shepard and Jess Row issued statements via The New ...
January 23, 2018
by Kevin Holton Annie Kim. Into the Cyclorama. University of Southern Indiana Press, 2016. It’s often said that wonderful and terrible events shape those who experience them, and in Into the Cyclorama, Annie Kim explores what shapes exactly they create. This book, winner of the 2015 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, brings together twenty-eight poems that don’t simply play with form, but manipulate lyrical ...
January 22, 2018
Jessica Guzman Alderman NIGHTTIME SPECTACULAR Walt Disney World Resort As fungus juts, as earthworms purse between grasses, orange obscures the animatronic toucan’s rust— head tilt, beak nip, wing stretching fissures in a spider web & the tangled ...
January 15, 2018
Cedric Tillman Supremacy, or The Black Lifestyle As much as people try to sound like they don't care, some people think a black president will look out for the black lifestyle. - an NC woman, on Ben Carson When I was comin’ up rough/that wasn’t even what you called it/that’s why I smoke blunts now & run with alcoholics - Tupac, “Fuck The World” I How to feed six kids? She doesn’t ...