DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS: A Micro-Interview with Rachel Eliza Griffths by Elaine Sexton ELAINE SEXTON: Among these photographs from your current exhibit, “American Stanzas,” (Poets House/NYC) is a self-portrait, an homage to the iconic painting, “The Two Fridas (1939)” by Frida Kahlo. This might be a good starting point to […]
A Process Note “Cold Pastoral” and “July 14, a bit of shade becomes a blessing” were not created as a pair. Rather the affinity was uncovered, or subliminally revealed, like “the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a operating table.” The image is […]
Today you can’t remember anyone you ever were. If as Seneca says the past alone is certain you awake certain of nothing at all except that you woke. Perhaps not even that. It feels like the first cold morning after the end of a war, all the zealots […]
Lindsey Drager is the author of The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, forthcoming 2017) and The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Award and recipient of Silver in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction. She is an […]
on a big secret On the third day of creation eyes Once before I was born I was a hoof Music wasn’t created yet, but leaves were Behind our perception of sky another sky, […]
The story about the body they found in the Botanic Garden came out in the newspapers and on television. The Kiev police identified it immediately: Dmitri Belov, reporter and political analyst known for his scathing criticism of President Poroshenko’s administration. Presumably it was a suicide, but until they […]
A Process Note by Susan Briante Underneath every fairytale: calculations of fear and frantic tallies of possibility. I did not know the story of Vodianoy, a masculine water spirit, before Yuliya sent me her painting. In some tales, Vodianoy appears “as naked old man with a frog-like face.” […]
Suzanne Buffam was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She earned an MA in English from Concordia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry collections include Past Imperfect (2005), The Irrationalist (2010), and A Pillow Book (2016). She has received the CBC Literary Award for Poetry […]
Spring arrives at Long Gate with its green grasses. The red plums are just beginning to blossom. I grind the block of tea into powder: a pot of spring breaks apart the memory of this morning’s dream. Flower shadows flower a cross the layered doors. The gauzy curtain […]
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rabbit-shows-up-again-in-flames-this-morning.pdf Andrea Read’s poems have appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly, 3rd Bed, and most recently in FIELD, Copper Nickel, and Parabola (forthcoming). A recipient of a National Resource Fellowship and a Tinker Foundation grant, Andrea lives with her family in Somerville, Massachusetts.
