What the Long Poem Says About Me
…but sharp moment of conflict. The speaker acknowledges her role in the emotional fallout: “I think it’s important to implicate / the self. The knife shouldn’t exit the cake clean….
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“Poem for a Chattanooga Night Club”
…undercut & her boyfriend & a confederate flag tattoo on her shoulder & there’s smoke in the air & the sign outside says no loitering by order of the police…
Grassroots Revolution
…a cell beneath the men’s, she discovered their toilet waste came down from the ceiling. As the Voting Rights Act came closer to reality, opponents increasingly couched their resistance in…
Cobs of Wisdom
I was sifting through the bins at the pay-by-weight Goodwill when I happened upon a cob of corn. Yes, you heard me right. Between the broken Barbie campers and the…
Worlds Within
Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel, The Story She Left Behind, tackles the tale of a precocious author’s seminal work, the unfinished sequel she left behind, and the mystery that ripples…
Revisiting a Witch Hunt
In the preface to Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Clay Risen states his intention to resist “drawing parallels between the past and the present.” Photo:…
