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…
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Image Credit: Kosoluchi Agboanike 1. Where I am from, a boy is taught to trace his history beginning from his father’s loins. He is to secure a rope around…
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The president is silent. To get into office, he had launched an erratic and often unintelligible campaign—an army for space, anti-immigration, anti-plant and animal, pro-large, expensive, and medieval wall, pro-flak…
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* * * Memory of a Bird And so we rage quietly. The coffee filter clutches ache, the coarse taste of it. Your glacial gait along the halls of half…
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The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel The Elder, 1563 Thomas Bernhard isn’t the subject of this essay. His style is—the tools he employs; the repetition; the bizarre speech markers; the…
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My father and I used to play this game in the ocean. We’d see the wave, shout a direction, then float over or duck under. I delighted in the harmony…
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Image Credit: All grave site photos by Sarah Laurentius The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world.” William S. Burroughs …
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* * * “He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark…
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There’s one behind the house, between the stacks of empty oil drums. She can hear it mewling. More voices join in, a miniature chorus of cartoonish pitches. This is how…
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Freedom. A Blue Jay flew in circles above the birdbath we had in our backyard the day my mother left. She left one cage only to walk into another. She…
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Sin of Semantics by Saima Afreen Copper Coin (Delhi), 2019 Pages 122 / Amazon India Saima Afreen is an award-winning poet and journalist who has received the Writer of…
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ConversationInterviewReviewLives to be Treasured: Author, Character and Self in Sandra Miller’s Trove
Trove: A Woman’s Search for Truth and Buried Treasure by Sandra A. Miller Brown Paper Press, September 2019 220 pages / BPP / Amazon Coming to grips with one’s…
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* * * The rainbow lorikeets and cockatoos are screeching away I’m in bed in the converted garage holding onto the corner of this beaded cushion like a child at…
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image courtesy of Cori Bratby-Rudd 1. I used to cry, chose to sleep on the floor, sleepingbagged child with a dog, a mom and with with with a sickening…