Essays
Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art (an Excerpt)
Marina Tsvetaeva and Natalia Goncharova are two of the strongest voices emerging from the Russian cultural tradition of the 20th century.
On the Fairy Tales School of English-Language Poetry
Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.
Loosening the Flesh & the Mind: Relic & The Taking of Deborah Logan
Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.
Why Learning a New Language is Like an Illicit Love Affair
Those are the languages that will consume you—all of you—as you do everything to make them yours.
Somebody Loves Us All: Finding Beauty in a Filling Station
My father’s car wash, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Filling Station,” and the somebodies who care for us all.
Genre as Network & Hybridity’s State of Matter : An Utterance About Literary Terminology
Genre is definitionally malleable, in flux, molten, unfixed in time and space, and this creates chaos.
Memory Care: A Personal Essay
When my grandfather was losing his memory, my son was learning to talk. The world offered itself to my toddler in corners and syllables.