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Dumpster Chicken

1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Letting Go: The History of New York City

“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

Backtalk

In the 1960’s, Alice Kramden was my television hero for standing up to her loser husband on The Honeymooners. “One of these days, Alice,” Ralph...

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Teaching in the Times of Genocide

September 27, 2024. Beirut. We have already lost one of our students. No. We have not lost him. He was killed. Murdered. Yes. Murdered in Beirut....

Maybe the Sun and Ten Years After 16

Maybe the Sun Looked like it would stay forever in the sky that day. Maybe the man on the porch and leaning against the house...

The Puma Way

Keep the Change

The God of Luck

Two Poems: Rutherford County and Study

Rutherford County even a stupid, static hunk of plastic sits between two stories, under constant tension being on the brink of being ripped apart the poor kid on one...

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading