Vision
I never finished the psychology text I read […]
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Touch
After a bath, teeth chattering, I’d cup my hands over my sex while Mother rummaged in the closet. Turning, the white towel hammocked between her arms, she’d wrap me in rough wings, spread a palmful of lotion over me like icing. Now that slow lave’s for my infant daughter— I run my thumbs up her […]
Taste
At four, shivering with fever, I bit through the thermometer slipped under my tongue. Mercury! My mother’s anguish washed over me as I was rolled onto my side, a wet cloth around her finger, she dug frantically through my mouth. First memory of taste: not the milky […]
Hearing
There is the sound and there is perception of the sound. What matters more— that which happens or that which hardens into memory? Consider how the crush of a train is louder in fog, how a song becomes the place and time in which […]
Synaesthesia
(after Rimbaud) I am waiting to breathe the light. They say there will be a long tunnel, then light. Will I see, just for a moment? Seeing, what is it? Better than tasting, than hearing? I can feel the machines whirring; so big, so heavy. Something being pumped from a bag is a salty fire […]
Leslie McGrath Q&A discusses the genesis of her poem Corpus
Leslie McGrath talks about the genesis of her poem Corpus.
Leslie McGrath Q&A talks about becoming a poet and obstacles to becoming a poet
Leslie McGrath talks about becoming a poet and obstacles she’s encountered along the way.
Maria Hummel at Stanford University, November 2, 2005
On November 2, 2005, Maria Hummel read at Stanford University in the first year of her Stegner Fellowship. Fishouse is pleased to present the audio from that reading. Former Stegner Fellow and Fishouse poet Shane Book introduces Hummel. Listen to the full reading (approximately 20 minutes), or listen to the poems individually: Full Reading God […]