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(the writer first day of Kindergarten: julius-james dodd circa 1997) Editor’s note: This column is part of a series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can…

It’s only appropriate that Marc Anthony Richardson’s voluble and fearless Year of the Rat should reach readers courtesy of FC2. Like the novels of Raymond Federman—one of the founders of…

I turn into the street, first house at the corner, I see the long house and the large pillar that holds the front porch. I pull into the curved driveway…

I awoke with thoughts of escarole in my mind. Or, more precisely, Escarole in Brodo, a simple Italian soup made from chicken stock and escarole, which I had eaten many…

Before we banish the term “unflinching” from our critical vocabulary forever, we might permit it one last flourish, and in the direction of Jason Snyder’s Family Album. For here is…

Our divorce story begins with my parents telling my sisters and me that they were getting a divorce while we were sitting in the backseat of our hot car, outside…

1.   Childhood in the Philippines involves two separate worlds: there is outside, and there is inside. You’re outside during the day, and at the first hint of darkening orange…

  It’s hard for me to write scholarly work, though I’ve been told by poets and scholarly writers alike that I’ve a scholarly mind. I’m sure this stems from what…

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Graywolf Press, May 2015 160 pages – Graywolf / Amazon   Maggie Nelson’s latest memoir, The Argonauts, takes a critical look at maternity, parenting, and both…