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“Harvest Song” [by Chelsea Whitton]
The world is wide, we say, and this is comfortingthough perhaps it shouldn’t be. We lie downat day’s end beneath this apple tree, or that one. We try hard to love our families a…
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Do Not Go Gentle… (by Sharon Preiss)
I first fell in love with Cy Twombly’s paintings when I saw Fifty Days at Iliam at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about 15 years ago. The ten large starkly white canvases flame with…
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Secrets of the Editing Trade, Part 1: The Rejection Slip
If the subscription list of this magazine approximated the yearly inflow of manuscripts – the editors would hire a long string…
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The Beautiful American Word, Sure
An alien crowd of nurses, residents, attending physicians, and machines and carts careened and hummed everywhere around his wife. If she had needed her husband during her labor,…
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Death of a Literary Magazine
It wasn't pretty. The decision was made by people who probably didn't read or look at it. It had been around for decades, surviving literary, cultural, cold, and military wars. It was killed by…
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On Twitter, “Terroir” and Feral Parakeets: An Interview with Don Share
Such serendipity! Just as Don Share begins his week of blogging here, an interview with him appears over at the terrific journal The Common. You can find it here. — sdh
