I couldn’t help thinking about how we carry memories with us and how Virginia Woolf ended her life by walking into the water with stones…
A competing longing for connection and scholarly integrity gives shape to many of these poems, which read like clearings of moving conjecture. Myles searches from…
I wanted the speaker of the poem to enact a storytelling voice when explaining a very adult thing to their child. I loved the juxtaposition…
The speaker of Monroe Lawrence’s book-length poem About to Be Young, totters between the youth that is defined by age and that which is justified…
In 2016 I was only three years clean and had moved back to the city where I used hard drugs from the ages of about…
What does it mean for a woman to be considered a witch? How does the patriarchal image of problematic women as witches endure across history,…
I think much of my OCD is a learned behavior as much as it is a genetic one. I wanted to capture how anxiety can…
Whether or not it’s an epic, the story I’m telling is certainly a bildungsroman. The speaker, a freshman in college, is attempting to become a…
I covet the single-mindedness of animals. Bears like Mink aren’t alone in their mysterious ability to orient themselves homeward from unfamiliar faraway places. On spring…
Several years ago I was taking a walk on a dark winter’s evening and hit upon the idea to write about the assassinations, mainly those…