Kevin McFadden Q&A on his poem “Matter”
Kevin McFadden talks about his poem “Matter.”
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Kevin McFadden Q&A on reading and on hearing a poem
Kevin McFadden talks about the relationship between reading and hearing a poem aloud.
Meditation Over Prairie
If you don’t hear from me, everything’s fine. In pressurized, recumbent air, trans-continental, 38,000 feet above the fruited plain, America I bring you truer sustenance than food. Careful, careful; everything here happens in the present tense. The word forgetful has no opposite but instinct: ketone stench of ditch-deer, ditch-dog. Souring. Each humiliation, each indecisive moment. […]
Generation X
I. In this life you get to keep what you can defend. When the wind turns right from here I hear the small jets encompass the tarmac; on standby people sigh the all-done sigh of turbines spooling up. Salarymen settle in, studying their Palms. So: the pewter-complected sky a […]
Further Affiant Sayeth Naught
In the cold and sun-shot heart of February, North wind bearing down hard like a hand on a blunt knife’s back: Here, here’s how the narrative can’t read. One year, short of work, I took to the woods. A man of enthusiasms, they say, and mines were there. As if I could hunt my […]
Desire Lines
Jive-ass little epiphanies. Nystagmic dawn-fire. Scamper and frolic of the forest in spring; pale sunrise settles in a mud-rimmed dish of rain, pale christly spatter of wild dogwood, cruciform, mid-April. At my footfall, two doe canter creekward, slanting down and cross-hill, unhurrying. You got to treat people like they treat themselves, got to bring […]
John Casteen Q&A on his poem “Generation X”
John Casteen talks about the genesis of his poem “Generation X.”
John Casteen Q&A on reading his work aloud
John Casteen talks about reading his work aloud as he writes.