Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books including, most recently, The Tao of Humiliation: Stories (Spring 2014) and Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy. She is the writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College.
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Our Ice
The nets silvery docked and the portholes frosted, the white pond scum and blanched duckweed, and the pine’s greenness frosted like a forged dollar bill or the newsprint color of […]
Nonfiction
Jan/Feb 2015
A Reverse Alphabet for Finishing
Zzeloypia “n. fantastical enthusiasm in advocating a cause, or carrying out an enterprise.” (Webster’s)* One of my earliest memories. I must have been three or, at most, four years old. […]
Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
Rehearsals
Their suspicion, so thick, so encrusted, was not original, but covetous and democratic. A painting blistered over much of the banquet room wall: red smudged faces, sulfurous, lid on a […]
Lee Upton
Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books including, most recently, The Tao of Humiliation: Stories (Spring 2014) and Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy. […]