Nina Corwin Q&A on her poem ‘Natural Selection’
Nina Corwin talks about the genesis of her poem “Natural Selection.”
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Nina Corwin Q&A on her poem ‘Inhabitants of the Cusp’
Nina Corwin on the genesis of her poem “Inhabitants of the Cusp.”
Nina Corwin Q&A on her poem ‘If Ever a There There Were’
Nina Corwin on the genesis of her poem “If Ever a There There Were.”
Nina Corwin Q&A on the obstacles to becoming a poet
Nina Corwin talks about the obstacles she’s encountered to becoming a poet.
Nina Corwin Q&A on the spoken word
Nina Corwin talks about the literary value of the spoken word.
Temper
Some things are damned to erupt like wildfire, windblown, like wild lupine, like wings, one after another leaving the stone-hole in the greenhouse glass. Peak bloom, a brood of blue before firebrand. And though, it is late in the season, the bathers, also, obey. One after another, they breathe in […]
Second Mystery of My Sister
It’s impossible to define force, but it’s not hard to figure the size of an arrow drawn in a diagram of the free body. Blunt. Entry. These cannot be measured like the integrity of a wing. If you think of a torso as a box, you can see how someone might want to […]
Heaven
Some would call this heaven – a teenage girl half-naked in the grass. For all I know, they might be right. The lighting is soft, mid-morning, hazy enough to blur the details, so we can fill them in any way we like. Say, a brunette, barely legal, hidden. From here, it looks like […]