I.   They had all disappeared before I arrived. Death. Distance. Disconnection. And discontent. Mother said her mum jubilated when she conceived me. But earth had taken her in, folding…

For one 500g loaf of bread: Measure, in a medium dish: 1/3 cup whole grain cereal mix. Add:  1/2 to 1 cup boiled water (I do this in stages, the…

Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Two Dollar Radio, March 2020 114 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   Tariq Shah’s spare debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, finds itself at the intersection of…

My partner and I drive to the coast where the coves have been crumbled by the titan feet of the sea. To be near the ocean is one of the…

Michael Hoffman does country and the blues tremendous justice on the timelessness of “Blue Skies on Both Sides”. A completely immersive experience he sings with so much pathos and soul…

Oneiromancy by Winétt de Rokha, Translated by Jessica Sequeira Smokestack Books, November 2019 / Amazon   “I went writing your name on leaves of Amaranth,” begins “Language Without Words” from…

Turning to Poetry for Hope during the Pandemic and the Uprising   I am not one to shy away from talking about the limits of poetry. Poetry is many things,…

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a…

Whack! I crimp cable in a computer factory. Never successfully. No matter how hard I try to master crimp connection, the inspector calls me back and asks if I know…

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…

Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…

Protagonist Ellie Chu is right. The Half of It is not a love story. It’s a movie built out of loving glances and hopeless yearning from afar. It doesn’t tell…

Women were being raped in your inner ring suburb of Cleveland, where you and your husband had purchased your first home. It was a long time ago, 1981 or 1982;…

For one 500g loaf of bread: Ingredients 400g H20 at 78-80 degrees* 100-200g leaven 200g rye flour 300g bread flour ½ tsp anise seed ½ tsp caraway seed 10g salt…