Kimberly Grey is author of three books, most recently A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Essays (Persea Books, 2023). She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 46
There was a cool morning late in October, I woke from a kind of half sleep that requires blinking, and I watched through the window a spider crawl between the […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 17
I found you where the bow split and rings of time ridged themselves into the seafloor. Today in the Atlantic, a metal tube carrying five men down to the depths […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 15
Our autobiography looks like this: Doisneau’s gaze, Stieglitz’s steerage, Weegee’s New York, Lartigue’s spontaneity, Salgado’s Argentina, Taro’s funeral, Bresson’s puddle, Foreman’s escape, Bourke-White’s spinning wheel, Leibovitz’s swan, Eisenstaedt’s lovers, Halsman’s […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 12
Barthes liked beginnings. I like endings. What does it say that I feel most comfortable closing a door? Ending a sentence? Blotting out the sun with my fist? Perhaps the […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 9
If a photograph is never a memory, then you were never a memory. That means there never was Montone in the fall. A food festival. We didn’t eat homemade tagliatelle; […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Investigation 3
There can’t be a story for an object of light. The second you try to hold it the emptiness takes over. One rebounds the beauty by looking at it, imagining […]
Poetry
Fall 2014
We Are Mostly Merciful
Again, everything is difficult again. The newspaper says the world is in no way merciful. So we must be in no way merciful. I rehearsed it all night—the absence of […]
May/June 2018
Excerpt from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
Conjugation (I) Just as language moves us, we must move language. It is our human job: to be, to go, to see, to love in, to run on, to lose, […]
Kimberly Grey
Kimberly Grey is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a current lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Tin House, A Public Space, jubilat, Southern […]