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My father used to read to me at bedtime when I was a kid. One of my favorite books was Louis Untermeyer’s anthology, The Golden Treasury of Poetry, with Blake, Dickinson,...

The first time I went to New York, or maybe the second, I read for the Segue series in the Zinc Bar: low stage, red velvet curtains—a windowless sexual basement,...

“Oh, he’s getting deported,” said my mother with a big, bright smile, right as my father was leaving the house to meet with an immigration lawyer. For years I’ve ruminated...

You haven’t seen Blazing Saddles until you’ve seen it in the hospice where your mother is spending her last three weeks, and she keeps saying, wait, it gets funnier.  Madeleine Kahn, Cleavon Little,...

Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here. Here we have something for you folks, we hope You enjoy it as we enter our social section, thank...

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here After the pandemic, I understood surrender.  It was February 2020, my father had just died, we’d sold our...

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here Parts I and II of “Murmurations” focused on the colonial violence of metaphorizing the heart and the...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I’m stuck in the elevator of a storage facility with four movers, and, when an hour passes, I climb...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. The part where we state some of the ecological issues within the State of the field. The US publishing industry...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment, visit this link: Part I. The word arrhythmic, from the Greek arrhythmos or without rhythm, did not always have...