Our eight-year old had the flu last week, when it snowed almost two inches, which was almost enough for our snow removal service to kick in. I’d insisted to you…
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1. During Sibelius’ Symphony #2, horses gallop on distant pastures. Waves lift the reeds and muscles trade with trembling strings. I smell leather. Hollows fill and water splashes from hoof-beats.…
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1. The Washington Square Park rangers were hammering away at beige boards near the famous arch, as I pushed my older daughter Anna through the park in her new,…
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This report summarizes the findings of the focus group conducted at the Mount Sinai base camp following the new product rollout. Participants were asked their views in a casual atmosphere…
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ReviewDiscovering the Science Behind My Madness: A Look at The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang Graywolf Press, February 2019 224 pages / Amazon “Schizophrenia terrifies.” So starts Esmé Wang’s stunning essay collection – by exposing the fear…
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My grandmother, my mother, myself—we are a daisy chain of readers, a coil of translators, a broken chain of writers. My grandmother, Margherita, would pounce on the romances published serially…
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* * * There was a poem waiting in the dead bird on my car. I did not want to know it, did not want to know that death, couldn’t…
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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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“If, and only if you’re lucky enough to get me, I’ll need the biggest stage ever built here.” “Isn’t this huge enough?” the gate-keeper enquired. “It’s obvious you know nothing…
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Last night, I walked towards the street of the home where we used to live. I got as far as the curb across from our stoop, then had to sit…
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A Dog Between Us by Duncan Barlow Stalking Horse Press, April 2019 248 pages / Amazon What words outline a human life? Ostensibly, Duncan Barlow’s A Dog Between Us…
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i. Dear Doctor— Each morning I unlatch the window to shout the miser magpies from their perch, the sill dips a bit in the clutch of my palm and I…
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The Northern Cardinal is our state bird here in Kentucky, as well as seven other states. It was also a frequent subject of my late grandfather’s paintings. Common folklore, is…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayCultureFeaturedWhite Carpet on the Back Stairs: Blackface, Whiteness, and My Virginia Childhood
Image Credit: Kiernan Lofland . . . to become white in the South is to absorb some large part of its particular iteration of the U.S. racial hierarchy.…