July 23, 2019
Mix-Tape VII: All the Eguanas for What We Can’t Say
There are things happening right now in many families, like my own, too painful to share. So I will share this instead: My husband B spells iguana with an “E.” […]
April 8, 2018
Wooden Indians: Prescriptive Roles in Publishing
Performative narratives that minority writers are expected to follow are both bountiful and brutally constrictive. Many authors find themselves in situations where, in order to complete projects or be included […]
January 27, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XII: Precursors)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XI: Insistence)”] Terrance Hayes ended a 2006 post for Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, by writing that “it is possible to value two very different things at […]
February 24, 2017
The Game
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster…when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” – […]
February 23, 2017
On Difficult Loves
January 23, 2017
Gam Zu L’tova (This too Is for the Good)
And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible […]
August 31, 2016
Goodbye, World Not Ending
“i am the nightbreaker. i shouldn’t go to bed without singing.” ― Sheila Maldonado, “break night song“ Goodbye, summer. Goodbye, multiple showers we’ve taken due to midnight walks in a month-long heat wave, […]
May 28, 2016
A Good Immunity is Everything
There might be only us In a room My love and I But that is fine What eyes are left for me Anyway what other eyes are left […]
January 31, 2016
Charleston Heavy
I’ve loved Charleston for awhile now. The first time I saw the city’s name was on a baseball cap my dad brought back from Air Force Reserve training, one of […]
November 4, 2015
The Principle of Inversion
If you look from a distance at our media talking about traditional religions, you find that “Hinduism” is reduced to the caste system and Hindu nationalism, “Islam” to fundamentalist or […]