Prose, Poetry, and Art since 1956
Languages and change, buses and trains, the tracks of planets – for our series on transit, transition, and translation, we’re looking for stories, poems, and nonfiction that deal with change and movement in under 1000 words. Submissions will open at 12 a.m. PDT on April 14 and close at 11:59 p.m. We can’t wait to read your work!
Oftentimes I wake with Don’t Forget written on the back of my hand in black ink. I never remember what— Maybe the dead headlight, or car oil rotting in its pipe. Perhaps, a reminder to turn off the radio, move my poetry drafts off the back deck before it rains. It could be don’t forget to crawl into bed before midnight but only after brushing…
In The Art of Description: World into Word, poet and essayist Mark Doty demonstrates how Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” “[tracks] the pathways of [the poet’s] scrutiny.” Bishop herself likened the process to the baroque sermons of John Donne, an attempt “to dramatize the mind in action rather than in repose.” I returned to this notion again and again while reading the prolific and remarkably…
Image: Tony Alter – Flickr: Little Beauties (Orange Jewelweed – Impatiens Capensis), CC BY 2.0
A mash up of 90-plus letters to my students in emails and a daily blog during COVID-19 school closures Well, this is it, it is Tuesday, and we are not going to school. This is the first day. Surreal headlines and government announcements. Puzzles selling out, as everyone hunkers down. I’ve been reading cancelation policies. My friend is walking his goats. The white pygmy’s name…