Carey Salerno Q&A on her greatest obstacle to becoming a poet
Carey Salerno talks about her greatest obstacle to becoming a poet.
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Reform, Missouri
As a centipede twitches into the dark of the electric burner, the winds that temper weather whip over ice, give their hearts to the winds of the abyss. When we were tourists at Alcatraz, under the gun gallery, we shivered at the clock that marked no incident but sorrow. Beyond our own valley of correction—adult […]
Family Plot
Wind-scoured in fallow land, bone-orchard sheltered in the airplane’s shadow, its incorporated space: a safe place to be dead. The car upturned on Barry Road. Barbara in the hospital, Becky at the stove, stirring the hollowed house full of pepper smell. Through a veil of dust the rare truck treads up, the morning fox’s muzzle […]
New Orleans
The highway overpass Parts subtropic sea In Mosaic fashion. Video help my unbelief. Revision of covenant: Avoid saying fault Scratch out feet to stand For seed read salt No thumb for the dam, A baby’s in the breach, One half for the pride of man, The other for the king. Who walks on water Doesn’t […]
Stefanie Wortman Q&A on her poem “Reform, Missouri”
Stefanie Wortman talks about the genesis of her poem “Reform, Missouri.”
Stefanie Wortman Q&A on her writing time
Stefanie Wortman talks about her writing time.
Stefanie Wortman
Stefanie Wortman’s poems have appeared in the Yale Review, New Orleans Review, and Smartish Pace. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri.
Silas Wright at Age Seven 1914
Silas Wright follows a fish’s wriggle In the shallows between reeds. He scribes the Line in his tablet—as much pride in that line As a man in his son. He almost giggles— Still he goes on. The next letters come easy. With this he’ll have more than a mark to bind. Rambling across the page […]