October 16, 2017
Leila Chatti Litany While Reading Scripture in the Gynecologic Oncology Waiting Room And God said, let there be blood And God said, flood And God said, good is a woman with fruit in her womb and not in her hand And God said, sin And God did not say, forgive And God said, I will make a stormy wind And God said, son, a breath stirring And God said, ...
October 09, 2017
Natasha Oladokun Performance of Rites at Community Inn Roanoke, VA taking my hair in his fingers quick I feel the slightest yank his back to me before I turn around white man elephant in a crowded bar to flay or not to flay this is the question always the body my body rendered an open question whether or not to wash down my wrath the ...
October 08, 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.]. - Recently I saw a question posed on Facebook about what people do to discourage students from submitting incomplete drafts to workshop. I started to write a long response, but then realized the ...
October 02, 2017
Erin Adair Hodges Self-Portrait as Banshee The then-boyfriend driving my car back from Vegas hits an elk outside of Gallup, twilight bruising the cliffs, and we spin around just once before the ditch opens to take us, “Superfreak” the soundtrack to the splintering, and a twang in white socks stops to perform his human duties, saying he saw us clip the buck’s ass but ...