“My mother, the young / immigrant, worked for minimum / wage at Denny’s, serving thin / coffee to men in blue denim. / My mother, sixteen, nimble…”
Browsing Category Prose, Poetry, and Art
Daily Affirmations by E. Y. Smith
E. Y. Smith’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Thoughtful Dog, The East Bay Review, and The Brooklyn Review.
Being Less Tough on Yourself: Thoughts from Galaxy 103T7BA by E. Y. Smith
There’s a lot of pressure to be perfect, but E. Y. Smith shows us that sometimes it’s okay to make a mistake…or two.
You and the Clarinetist by Molly Gutman
“He flourished the tickets last Saturday…You were stepping out of your slip-ons. The daycare was a mess; the babies had passed around a cold and their whines stuck in your head, like the shadows bodies leave on walls after explosions.”
Eurydice’s Lament by E. Y. Smith
We never stop feeling the effects of the past in new art from E. Y. Smith, the first piece in a series of four we are excited to share.