Tag Archives: Spring 2021
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
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The legend goes that one day when he was sixteen, my dad bent down to tie his shoes and could …
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Sequestered
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by Linda Wastila Red velvet shrouds the bedroom windows, cloisters our confinement. Morning? Noon? Does time matter? Beside me, …
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Notes on the Micros
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Spring means baseball. I believe it’s a poetic game. The green expanse, the dust clouds, the quiet waiting for the …
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Restaurant Days, Food Obsessions, and Bourdain
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by Eric Steineger My wife is an ex-professional chef and author of a BBQ cookbook. She used to co-own …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
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In “Autobiographical Notes” from the 1984 edition of Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin turns his attention to how …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
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The other day, I was teaching a creative writing class and showed Charlotte Pence’s “Consciousness” on the overhead, as I …
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St. Augustine Sits
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by Michael Pittard next to me peeling my pear with his bitten fingernails the flesh receding at his gentle …
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I saw us in a Vermeer painting with no people in it
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by Dana Chiueh O how sweet is that aggressive belonging. O how unkeepable. O how it feels like nature. …
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Mr. Fix-It
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by Gabriela Denise Frank My father’s eyes were shit brown. His words. For most of his life, he worked …
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Carolling
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by Kate Neuman In the vast, wood-vaulted, ship-like library (est. 1889) that is the pride of Norfolk, CT (est. …
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