by Natalie Young | Dec 20, 2013
Out it comes, equinox-crossed and it’s winter again. She holds her breath. The aliens haven’t adjusted well. They carry inhalers, wear masks. State-issued warnings: Avoid driving, stay inside. None of this air is translucent. It turns and it turns out this city’s in a...
by Jeneva Stone | Aug 26, 2020
My Afmericaby Artress Bethany WhiteTrio House Press, 2019 In her second collection, My Afmerica, Artress Bethany White grapples with the grief of generations of Black mothers in America. Her title reflects the reality that black skin, for many whites, is an unwelcome...
by The Editors | Jun 14, 2020
Ambalila Hemsell on The Social Distance Reading Series Ambalila Hemsell is the author of Queen in Blue. You can find her poems in wildness, The American Literary Review, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Tacoma, WA. Brought to you by The Vermont School...
by The Editors | Apr 12, 2020
Chard deNiord on The Social Distance Reading Series Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, including In My Unknowing, (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), Interstate, (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) The Double Truth (University of...
by Erin Ruble | Oct 9, 2018
I. In the black water it is hard to see the body, one more shape floating amid chunks of ice. The railroad trestle looms ahead, the lights of town casting a faint latticework shadow on the water’s surface. There is no moon. The current quickens a little when it...
