Poetry

Mon Jan 10 2011 What Care the Dead for Day by Hadara Bar-Nadav who linger, who watch as I once did from the high corner of a dream, floating above your hospital Read more...	Mon Jan 10 2011 X Y by Kimberly Grey If X equals Y there is less than an islandbetween them. If X equals sky then there isalmost room Read more...	Mon Jul 5 2010 An Elegy for My Libido by D.A. Powell Well, here it is, the Oscar race has started and there isn’t a single movie I’m dying to see. Read more...
Mon Jul 5 2010 Archaeologia by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton The Archaeology of Archangels This is the first in a series of stanzas that Ordinarily would be Read more...	Mon Jul 5 2010 At Least by Michael Anania voices beyond the wall, Spanish, probably, the cast of morning shadows, Friday, white Read more...	Mon Jul 5 2010 Banned for Life from the Artists' Colony by Alison Stine You want to write. You want to write. Tonight a sharp breeze from the river or elsewhere Read more...
Mon Jul 5 2010 Blue, Again by Michael Anania Wednesday morning—it’s Miles again, this time in Texas, the Gulf clouds dense gray, Read more...	Mon Jul 5 2010 Clay by Heather Dobbins-Combs O maker of paper and damsformed after minerals of time, teach me to adjust to this bed,varved Read more...	Mon Jul 5 2010 Day Trip by Emily Beyer Forest Service Road on 6 didn’t come up.You and I quiet, grown up together,no questions to ask each Read more...

The Moving Face (for Roger Ebert)

The first time I ever really thought about Roger Ebert it was because I knew he was warm, dry, and celebrating and I was cold, wet and furious. It was January 2005 in Chicago, and unsurprisingly it was snowing on me and members of Not Dead Yet as we staged a protest outside the Union League Club, surrounded by a row of news trucks.
On the Early English Essay: An Experimental Array

"Essay" enters into English untamed.
The Facts of the Matter

Here is how it happened: The door to the suite was open that night when I walked past and saw her splayed across a couch, one foot on the floor, one leg hooked over an arm rest.
Excerpt from Office Girl

On that Monday at the end of January, Jack Blevins, a questionable young man of twenty-five, rides his blue bicycle beneath the flurry, with tape recorder in hand.

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, edited by Ryan G. Van Cleave

Ryan G. Van Cleave’s new anthology of Chicago poetry, City of the Big Shoulders, succeeds in displaying the essentials as defined and described by a diverse crowd of Chicagoans.
The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

At the heart of this collection, Barnett’s second, is an engagement with Kant’s idea of the sublime, namely that the self experiences both terror and dread in the face of the infinite—whether death or, as the Romantics understood it, the implacable force of Nature.
Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, by Heléne Aylon

The memoir, like the artist herself, swerves between cutting-edge installation art, the ancient passages of the Bible, and centuries-old Jewish law and tradition.
The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990 edited by Harold B. Segel

This fascinating book, edited by Prof. Harold B. Segel of Columbia University, presents a rich sampling of writings by people imprisoned in the jails of the former Eastern European Soviet colonies...