November 10, 2017
Congratulations to our first fiction nomination for this year’s Pushcart Prize: Alexander Weinstein for "Fall Line." Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here.
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Fall Line
I’m filling ice when Sunny radios that Desolation Pass is officially closed for the season. The top half is skiable, but after that it’s all patches of grass and rocks. “I’ll tell them to bring an inner ...
November 06, 2017
Shara McCallum
Race
You are the original incognito.
Transparent, all things shine through you.
She’s the whitest black girl you ever saw,
lighter than “flesh” in the Crayola box.
But, man, look at that ass and look at her shake it
were just words, not sticks or stones, flung
when dresses were the proof that clung like skin,
when lipstick stained brighter than any ...
November 02, 2017
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision/revising teaching, specifically of the latest post on process. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
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In the spirit of teaching the writing process, I've been having weekly meetings with my students, individually, in office hours. In a way I am doing this because of Margot Livesey, who made ...
October 30, 2017
Alessandra Lynch
P.S. Assault
1.
It took seconds for him
to push me down then he was done—
I was supine. Perpendicular, the tree. That night
we made a kind of staggering diagram in the parking lot.
How had he risen from me? Jerked out, rolled
off.
Crude knuckles scuffed by fatigue and dust, the roots
of the tree inches from ...
