The cool, dry air pays a visit like an old friend. My skin is glowing but my eyes are tearing. I have a short prose poem in the fall issue of Unbroken Journal. It is ominous, as most writing is these days. Someone asks me, “What do you write?” I...
“32 Names for Future Hybrid Tulips” by Traci Brimhall “Magic City Ruse” by Ariel Francisco “The Field of Rooms and Halls” by Richard Siken “Kitchen Coven” by Avra Elliott “Vows (for a gay wedding)” by Joseph O. Legaspi “Adolescence” by Nin Andrews “Sea Church” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil “Essay on Craft”...
This isn’t about writing style like you might think, or about carving out my own identity in the literary landscape. This is about actual voice and how I’m trying to change it. I’ve always been soft-spoken. You’d think by now I’d be used to being talked over, interrupted, and not...
Not too long ago, I didn’t know exactly what prose poems were, but I suspected I’d been writing them for a while. I just assumed they were hybrid poems that emphasized the narrative over the lyrical. Apparently I was both right and wrong. In order to better understand what I...
Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde “What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich “Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser “Sewing Feathers” by Jennifer Givhan “Tangerine Trees & Little Bags of Sugar” by Su Cho “The Letter” by Mary Ruefle “Little Exercise” by Elizabeth Bishop “Postfeminism” by Brenda Shaughnessy “Echo”...