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  • Nin Andrews Interviews Denise Duhamel, Part 1

    March 7, 2009

    1. Nin Andrews:You grew up in Rhode Island.  Can you say a few words about your childhood?  At what age did you first think: I want to write poetry? Was that a dream they…

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  • I Should Be So Lucky – Killing the Last 10 Minutes of Friday

    March 6, 2009

    — sdh

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  • Topographies [by Nicole Cooley]

    March 6, 2009

    Topographies Marshy spillover is first to flood:  where water first met sand and pilings lost all anchor.   Where nothing rose above the surge, that wall of black, black water. Where houses buckled, crumbled.…

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  • “The Island of Foodies” [by Major Jackson]

    March 6, 2009

    Since that first kiss in the lobby on Boerum Hill I've fallen in love with Brooklyn, and the risky, yellow ledgesof subway platforms, and the way a small pinpoint of lightemerges out of darkness…

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  • Fun Fact

    March 5, 2009

    I've found English Departments are obsessed with eunuchs; you do the math.  For one thing, "eunuchs" provide a great image for theorists to use, especially queer theorists.  I've noticed, though, one thing that's never…

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  • Compendium of Lost Objects [by Nicole Cooley]

    March 5, 2009

    Not the butterfly wing, the semi-precious stones, the shard of mirror, not the cabinet of curiosities built with secret drawers to reveal and conceal its contents,   but the batture, the rope swing, the…

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