Ishion Hutchinson Q&A on a poem he wishes he’d written
Ishion Hutchinson Q&A on a poem he wishes he’d written, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal.”
Ishion Hutchinson Q&A on a poem he wishes he’d written, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal.”
Ishion Hutchinson recommends two poets for Fishouse visitors to explore, British poets Basil Bunting and George Barker.
When the baby breaks night with a cry, my first waking thought is Summerisle. Why? Because I am hunting what haunts me? Because I am a giant fool? I’ve always run toward an asp, Medusa’s captive, looking, looking too hard at the sun. An algorithm for how I am burned alive. Also, that night […]
I awake with this question on my tongue: where’s the jigsaw puzzle of the cow and her stillborn calf? Where is it? And whose voice is that talking around our morning house this dawn— a lady’s, a seagull’s, or that of our gone baby son? And what was that incantation my husband uttered […]
Julia Butterfly Hill now older old as me now saying They cut Luna down Now I call her Flattie and in the accompanying photograph a stump coffee table wide and sleek on the forest floor with Julia behind and arrayed with my recently dead mother’s painted gourd ducks […]
Arielle Greenberg talks about trying with her poems to stay “authentic to the messy way [her] mind works and the messy way that life works.”
Arielle Greenberg offers some advice to young writers.