Colleen J. McElroy is author of Blood Memory (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). McElroy is professor emerita at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle, Washington.
Nonfiction
Autumn 1992
The Moon and Malaysia
There are some who will tell you dragons guard the moon. If you have any doubt, go to Malaysia on the night of any full moon and watch lizards try […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Heavy in the S Curves
dusk and someone’s dog runs loose on the freeway Xs and Os blink randomly at the end of no turn lanes a child speaks of piety and faithreborn in arenas […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Trompe l’Oeil: Slovenia
This first glimpse of the eastern side of the Alps and the driver turns his movie profile to the rear- view mirror dancing on the neap and ebb of springless […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
A Little Traveling Music
This is not a planet I would want to inherit—With its inventory of mountainous sorrowsThere is hardly a place to lay a good night’sSleep before tomorrow’s bad news arrives, And […]
Poetry
Spring 1991
Lifting the Morning
for Sally and Salvatore On the Isle of Ischia we ate our morningMeals just beyond a line of sleeping AmericanBombs laid pillar to post underThe wine cellar’s lime-washed walls. The […]
Weekend Reads
The Moon and Malaysia
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Autumn 1992, Vol. XIV, No. 4 There are some who will tell you dragons guard the moon. If you have any doubt, go to […]