“The sea is, if anything, famously huge.” – Kathleen Rooney, ‘Man Overboard!’ If your floors do not have sand residue, if your clothes don’t smell vaguely of sunscreen and chlorine, […]
Friday Links: One Big Long Poetry Week Edition
“actually that’s basically the whole story / the end of the potato wedge / is dipped in BBQ sauce and / then transferred to the mouth I” – Jon Woodward, […]
Friday Links: There Are Trans People Here Edition
“I’ve changed my name / & my clothes too / on my way to / liberation.” – H. Melt, “ON MY WAY TO LIBERATION” Would hate for y’all to think […]
Friday Links: No Clever Titles For Juneteenth Edition
“There’s only drowning ahead, and no gods to help us.” – Hailey Piper, ‘No Gods For Drowning’ Hey, that line’s literal in the book, but you kinda gotta live life […]
Friday Links: Just Like Witches In Black Masses Edition
“In Chill’s limited experience with the music industry, she’d learned that being heavily armed and highly insane were more common than she’d ever realized.” – OF Cieri, ‘BACKMASK’ The New […]
Friday Links: Is Your Family Made Of Eccentrics Edition
“It was true that there was an omnivorousness to the selection, but it wasn’t the thoughtless hunger of a starving person. Each painting was a dish, a tight clean nibble […]
Friday Links: Don’t Blur The Lines Step Over Them Edition
“I no longer aspired, as I had during my MA…to write literary mainstream or fabulist fiction.” – Molly Gaudry, ‘Fit Into Me’ Hey, I sent my poetry manuscript off to […]
Friday Links: The Book of Surviving The Camps Edition
“What devil was known to be so cowardly as to exclusively menace a young boy? Who was the cowardly monster that would not risk showing himself in the flesh? Who […]
Friday Links: Sheep Everywhere Edition
“The only way to get out of that worm universe is to dream another symbolic dream.” – Haruki Murakami, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ All I really mean by that title […]
Friday Links: Raised On A River By A Snake Edition
“Father had always encouraged Numamushi to cry freely. If snakes had venom to fill and protect the stomachs that made them snakes, then humans had tears to protect and clean […]