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Available Surfaces VI: Writ in Water [T.R. Hummer]
The place I spent my boyhood was landlocked; we were far from the ocean, and from any other kind of major body of water, whether significant lake or river. There were not even streams…
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“The Sixties” [by James K. Baxter]
The Sixties for Louis Johnson 'The icy dawn of the sixties'– Yes, you have it there. Today I saw a black sperm whale Rolled on the rocks at Pukerua Bay. The…
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Some Kind of Sublime: Late August in New Orleans [by Kathleen Heil]
Some Kind of Sublime: a Madri Gras Indian Summer— a domestic dispatch from our Madrid correspondent Kathleen Heil It's noon on a Thursday, two days before the fourth anniversary of the day the levees…
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Available Surfaces V: Can Teaching be Written? [T.R. Hummer]
“I hear and sometimes share some fundamental objections. Creative-writing programs and workshops are a commodification of the art. They attempt to express or enact something that is finally and importantly solitary. They water down…
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Two Ghosts of a Chance
Tom Clark's "Ghost of a Chance" (after Mallarme) Lee Wiley, "Ghost of a Chance" "I need your love so badly, I love you oh so madly, but I don't stand a ghost of a…
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“The Flesh: A Deposition” [by Tom Disch]
The Flesh: a Deposition A traitor am I? Then you're another.All those nights of steady inconspicuousConsumption, the days inert–Weren't they a treason on a par with mine?Did you do nothing to deserveThe clogged pipes,…
