Kevin Goodan Q&A on reading his poems aloud when he writes
Kevin Goodan talks about reading his poems aloud when he writes.
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Kevin Goodan Q&A recommends three poets
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), recommends three additional poets for Fishouse listeners to explore, including Patrick Donnelly.
Anyways
for David Anyone born anywhere near my home town […]
Echocardiogram
How does, how does, how does it work so, little valve stretching messily open, as wide as possible, all directions at once, sucking air, sucking blood, sucking air-in-blood, how? On the screen I see the part of me that always loves my life, never tires of what it takes, this in-and-out, this open-and-shut in the […]
Airstream
We shall all be changed. Handel’s Messiah, I Corinthians 15:51 The broad aluminum expanse of you back corners rounded like a horse’s rump front corners rounded like a horse’s rump your narrow back door with its […]
Bird Figurines
There is one on nearly every shelf of the antique shop, and on walls, on tables, under tables: the tin, the china, the paper maché bluebirds and jays and chickadees, the eagles carved out of cherry or walnut. It is as if, in a century of work and sickness, the light dim, the food scant […]
Glory
My husband and his first wife once sang Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall, with 300 others who also had read the ad for the sing-along, and this is why I know the word glory is not sung by the chorus, although that is what we hear. In fact, the choir sings glaw-dee, glaw-dee while it […]
Suzanne Cleary Q&A on her writing process
Suzanne Cleary, author of the collection Keeping Time (2002), and the forthcoming Trick Pear (2007, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press), talks about her writing process.