No matter how bad it got between the two of you, your mother could always knit you a sweater.
From the Objects of Your Abandonment by Lisa K. Buchanan
Year: 2020
The Head on the Commuter Line by Max King Cap
I grew up on trains. I attended college by train. I went to work by train. There was a station less than two blocks from my firehouse…
Food Is Home. Home is Food. by Smitha Murthy
I spoon some batter for the ambode into my hands. Mom slaps my wrist, but I can’t resist as I watch her press the batter between her hands…
Tan Lines by Michael Todd
Skin has always come first, a sheath concealing that which is honest, sometimes dangerous.
Learning to Lose (excerpt from Brooklyn Reveries) by Ruth Q. Leibowitz
The first thing I noticed were the tiny droplets of water that shone on his eyelashes.
INTERVIEW: Miah Jeffra, Author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!
…what is truthful is that the way that you remember it is how you have been constructed, no matter how minutely or profound that was.
INTERVIEW: Melissa Valentine, Author of The Names of All the Flowers
This book saw me through active grief. It saw me through figuring out how to write. It saw me through finding my way into my story.
INTERVIEW: Davon Loeb, Author of The In-Betweens
As a poetry editor, one thing that I prefer is narrative poetry—don’t explain; show it.
INTERVIEW: Jason B. Rosenthal, Author of My Wife Said You Wanted to Marry Me: A Memoir
In March 2017, Jason’s wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, penned her final goodbye – an essay called “You May Want to Marry my Husband”.
WRITING LIFE: Sharpening My Focus by Michele Popadich
What will I see if I step closer to the heart of an essay?
