Nonfiction

From Mea Culpa to Me Too

I am teaching Sherman Alexie's collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven in my Native American literature class…

4 years ago

The Night After Newtown

a father high and tight,     a father reservoir of poses                                — Farid Matuk, “A Daughter Having Been of the Type"…

4 years ago

GRAVIDARUM

Secret They talk with the lights off, / words kept in bedroom  dark so this  moment will  live /  for…

4 years ago

The Urban Wild Coyote Project

“Hiding in plain sight, this highly intelligent, creative, and adaptive animal has managed to thrive against the odds,” Kathryn says.…

5 years ago

Yellow Cigarette

The pale jeans, the dry, curly hair and all the hands–sifting, grabbing, pressing. The kissing passionate and pink. The boobs…

5 years ago

Knock-Enter

I’m sitting alone in a dark conference room, phone pressed to my ear, eyes squeezed shut, trying to make sense…

5 years ago

Odometer

001969 My grandfather stamps the gas pedal, sending a rooster’s golden plume to settle over the green haze of Iowa…

6 years ago

Science for Dummies

In eighth-grade science class I was distracted by the boy who sat in front of me (our last names alphabetically…

6 years ago

A Leaky Bag of Water

In the warmer months, my humid and lush suburban backyard becomes a battlefield for my war against slugs. I would…

6 years ago

Black Hole/White Hole

A white hole is a hypothetical region in space, a mathematical probability that’s never been observed. It is an eruption…

6 years ago

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