by Katie Schaag with Sarah Ciston, Sam Cohen, Kate Durbin, Feliz Lucia Molina, and Sandra Rosales Katie Schaag: At the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in San…
* * * Autumn Elegy Yesterday, the clouds hung like velvet. Blackbirds descended upon the gold leafed tree and clattered rusty cries. With a silent signal, they burst into the…
Marion’s brother is dead. Marion slouches to the department store––slanting rain; it’s rained for weeks––and buys little screws, the smallest files on offer, little hammers and copper wire so fine…
The Jungle Room It was meant to be a “formal” living room, the kind where not much living actually happened. My mother decided to decorate it toward an exotic…
“And then it is another day and another, but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.” — Jenny Offill, Weather *** A…
Image Credit: British Library via Unsplash After the miscarriage. After the intrusive appointments. After the unexplained infertility diagnosis. After the private adoption application. After the IVF abroad in the…
WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
Sometime in the mid-’90s, I had a phone conversation with my older brother David (who prefers the moniker “DaveR”), in which I shared my growing appreciation of New Music—avant-garde work…
It was still light out when Darcy, Kerry, and I left Kerry’s mother’s house: a one level, newly built house in a neighborhood filled with one level newly built homes,…
My mom only knows military time. Because she grew up in Sweden, even though she’s lived in the US now longer than she ever lived there, she still gets her…
* * * Ruminate tea-stained clouds steep in today’s sky of porcelain blue weak tannic breeze bubbles with August heat robins bounce_____across the lawn _______rusty orange__breasted female___pauses crooks her head________plunges…
* * * When I let the soft animal of my body love what it loves —after Mary Oliver it falls from the sky like one of Mary Oliver’s…
Stardust Willie Nelson April 17, 1978 Columbia Records On the back cover of my father’s copy of Stardust, Willie Nelson smiles, soft-focus mountains rising in the distance. It is magic…
Before Baba Oma was Baba Oma, third cousin to the witch Baba Yaga, she was a little Polish-German girl with birds for hands. Her left hand was a small bluebird,…