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A Look Back: Poets on Thanksgiving
First, a poem: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was.…
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The Year in Review: Where Does My Body Live [by Kenji C. Liu] May 26, 2012
* Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu – Craig Santos Perez – Ching-In Chen – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – Andre Yang – Barbara Jane Reyes As someone who was raised as a man, my gender is an incredibly slippery experience to write…
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From the Archive: A Poem for Thanksgiving Week (by Laura Orem)
The holiday insanity is upon us again. But instead of stressing out that I’m not Martha Stewart, I’ve been trying to remember to breathe, and to think about what the holidays are supposed to…
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From the Archive: Miriam Haskell and Me (by Rosanne Wasserman)
I’ve been wrapped up with Miriam Haskell for years: her definitive, needy ghost; her really good story; the internet full of her eye-candy-gorgeous work. Life was stressful: my school’s ten-year accreditation report fell on…
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From the Archive: Thanksgiving 1977, Albany NY [by Stacey Harwood]
My father had died suddenly in February. The approaching holidays aroused more than the usual anxiety as we considered how we would celebrate without him. I was living in Albany, NY, working as a…
