Alex Chertok has work published or forthcoming in Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2016, among others. He currently teaches at Ithaca College and through the Cornell Prison Education Program.
Sept/Oct 2017
Practicing Her Eulogy
The father of the week-old boy and the mother of the week-dead son both spoke faraway to me over the phone. The father’s was the promise of endlessness a seashell […]