Throughout my life as poet with cerebral palsy, I have been aware of the academic inclusion model of poetry publication…
A Pause in the Calamari
I have been catching up on a back-log of reviews, though I will return to my full press review of…
Novels not written
Every so often I find myself playing with ideas for novels I know I’m never going to write. For years…
Numbers
It would be interesting if online literary journals released their traffic stats.
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: On a Sentence from “My Final Best Feature,” by Gary Lutz
I was going to lay off those years for a change, but here were people in what might have been…
Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it…
Guest Post, by Thomas Cooper: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“The vanishing of the doctor’s wife’s child in broad daylight was an event so cataclysmic that it forever divided time…
Guest Post, by Barry Graham: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“At the tedious party of relative difference, no one wants to sit near me.” Joe Wenderoth from Letters to Wendy’s
Half Reactionary, Half Introspective
Listen: goodreads has a rating system of ____ out of 5 stars, translating as 1 = I didn’t like it,…
On Amy Hempel’s “Greed”
I sat in the library today writing and reading. A rank odor would intermittently hit me, and I didn’t know…