Terra Brigando Recently, you have been everywhere. I carry your journals as weathered talismans, a sign of misguidance – the way you stole my voice when I was five and I learned that mountains shed such long shadows in rooms that don’t face the sun. I thought I saw you, the other day, walking down West St. It was you, gaunt face, faded baseball cap, hooked nose. Only you disappeared up some unknown gravel driveway and walked into some...

Michelle Askin Those memories go to my brother’s eyes: kidney red from drugs. My mother rubbing them with a dishrag, praying to the saint of addiction. Then on our row house lawn he swung clubs with an Asian woman, who one midnight said, you teach me golf. My mother worried: the husband might mind. He would watch from the doorway. His cigar smoke moving like stories: a school bombing in a Saigon village— blood from flesh and orchard...

Lois Beebe Hayna He says swallows circled over them. She remembers no sound of wings. Only of water harsh with autumn. Sometimes now birds–cries shrill through dream–converse and she wakes awed by a strange sense of flight, just as he says he must have imagined the swallows. He speaks of an apple tree bee-loud with blossom. She insists the tree stood bare, the harvest long past. Yet, in odd moments she catches the scent of flowering. He...

The songwriter discusses the composition of Paper Boats.

Sincere. Honest. Hilarious.

Boston comedian Bill Burr sits down to discuss church, age, and Howard Cosell.

Karen Swenson’s newest title, A Pilgrim into Silence, is divided into four sections. Each of the sections explores the life journey of an urban American woman—a woman of a generation and a class perhaps tinged with theatrical qualities of pomp and circumstance; a lady propelled by notions of religion and reason...

Order the print collection of poetry, fiction, and visual art two years in the making featuring the work of Benjamin Percy, Joe Meno, Terese Svoboda, John Hemingway, Bruce Smith and many others. “The work in Fogged Clarity doesn’t stomp its foot and shout look at me, I’m so clever and inventive and fresh, it just is clever and fresh – and extremely moving … Let me make it perfectly clear: this is the first, but...

The award winning author discusses the influence and process behind American Salvage, anachronisms, and her days in the circus.

Directed and filmed by Lee McEwen Israeli-born folk musician Amir Darzi sits down to talk and play in Brooklyn last month. Amir Darzi is a folk-rock musician born and raised in Israel. He currently lives in Brooklyn where he is recording his first full-length...

Daniel R. Schwarz Cooking naked: Seasoning salmon fillets with sensuous overture— olive oil, oregano, lemon juice, black pepper; I shave the asparagus stalks, she tosses salad. Dancing as one, we revel in soft gazes, urgent touches, tongues respond with bluesy kisses, sounds in our throats as sighs cross desires. At dawn our music ceases. Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and the Stephen H. Weiss...