April 24, 2015
William Giraldi's "A Bibliophile's Defense of Physical Books" Check out Pleiades writer William Giraldi's essay in The New Republic on the benefits of collecting physical ...
April 20, 2015
Congratulations to Kaethe Schwehn, whose book Tailings: a Memoir won the Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction. Read the announcement from the Minneapolis Star Tribune here: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/300560121.htm Read her story "Redirect," published in Pleiades 32.2 here: REDIRECT by Kaethe Schwehn “There is no rope swing unraveling in the moonlight. You ...
April 07, 2015
Lucky Lightning: An Interview with Traci Brimhall Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. A lot of your poetry has a darker tone; “Aubade ...
April 06, 2015
Relevant Details by Catherine Pierce The bar was called The Den of Iniquity, or maybe The Cadillac Lounge—whatever it was, its sign was a neon martini glass, or a leg ending in stiletto. Maybe a parrot. Anyway, in that place I danced without anyone touching me but seven men watched from the bar with embered, truculent eyes. Or I danced with my boyfriend’s hands hot around my ribs. Or I didn’t have a ...