Why Write? #15: Sarah Messer

Why Write? #15: Sarah Messer

The current issue of Green Mountains Review (Winter 2012) features the below poem by Sarah Messer. “Poisoned Mouse” accomplishes so much with so little that we thought we’d ask Sarah to talk about how it came about. –The Editors Poisoned Mouse...
Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre

Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre

  Preface Across the sweeping canvas of American history, two markers–inherited and ineluctable–from the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919 in Phillips County, Arkansas of the Mississippi River Delta invite a degree of attention to the episode yet to be...