Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

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Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

'I Think Most People Feel Haunted': An Interview with Sara Peters

The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.

The Year in Photographing Flowers

I have no idea what history will make of 2020, but the only record I have kept of this cursed year are blurry photos of shrubs.

The Year in Self-Improvement

The point is to accept that our impulses cannot save us from impermanence, that change and failure and death are inevitable—that stillness, as much as movement, is divine. 

'The Ethics of Being a Poet': An Interview with Jenna Lyn Albert

The author of Bec & Call on the role of poet laureates, the political power of writing, and capturing a sense of place in her work. 

The Year in Escapes

In a move critics are describing as “a bit on the nose,” I start playing a game about being trapped eternally in hell.

The Year in the Unseen

The crow is seen as a harbinger of death, a carrier of messages, a wise and knowledgable bird with a connection beyond this spiritual plane. 

The Year in Learning French

Sometimes we never made it to the lesson and simply reflected on the disasters unfolding—not as a way to understand, but to talk about the impossibility of understanding.