Terese Svoboda will publish Live Sacrifice (Ravenna) in 2017. In 2016 she published a book of poetry, Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear) and Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner).
Poetry
Autumn 2005
EZ Passitis
All six lanes of love, driving, driven off, all sex lanes. But I thought I made that turn. The sign said: Like as not. Like a snot. Love's tender buttons […]
Fiction
Spring 1995
I Dreamt He Fell Three Floors and Lived
The rest of the world pretends it is normal. A few birds cough up from the black-budded trees, two cars miss each other. Looking out the window, away from the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1995
Try Bondage
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1993. 140 pages. $8.00, paper. Joker, Joker, Deuce by Paul Beatty. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. 108 […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
The Septic Conversation
Did I mention the way water charts a slope across the gravel? If not, please note. And let me suggest taking that south fork, for all judgment lies with the […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
The Smell of Burning Pennies
The red claw of rhubarb presses out of the cold ground and six cats, all something gray, convene under the terrace for the dog. It is time to look for […]
Poetry
Winter 1993
The Quick Cave
”No hobos here, just homeless–” the grease monkey pulls a face when I ask about the turnoff. Where the map says left at the hobo shack is culvert, the cave […]
Spring 2016
The Cloud Painter’s Lover
The orange car the sixteen-year-old has been eyeing ever since he strapped himself in is taking up the air—can’t they feel it? The boy lunges at the windshield, he smacks […]