Laura McCullough has four collections of poems, PANIC, winner of a Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books, 2011); Speech Acts (Black Lawrence Press, 2010); What Men Want (XOXOX Press, 2009); and The Dancing Bear (Open Book Press, 2006). She has two chapbooks, Women and Other Hostages (Amsterdam Press), winner of a Flip Kelly Award; and Elephant Anger, published online at Mudlark. She has been a fellow in […]
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?” The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot Men always want things bigger, and he lamented his small hands, fine as ebony sticks alive […]
The small loves are sometimes the best, like falling in love with a man with large hands because he waved them at you across a table, his fingers splayed like faulty dock joists, and all of a sudden you are in a boat mooring up to one of those skeltered poles, one foot over the […]
In a bar somewhere during an ordinary October, a former husband sits with his former wife, and they talk about the son they share. The husband tells her how proud he is of the boy, how great football is: the loyalty to teammates, willingness to work through pain, leadership by men of boys who want […]
We waited to see what would happen next, but there was no kiss, just an unkiss; we remained bifurcated, speaking only with tongues not in them, your words across the space between us understandable, the opposite of Mandarin and Cantonese. If you wrote me a letter, I couldn’t read it, but speak to me, and […]
Ed: We will post text of this poem pending publication in Prairie Schooner.
Laura McCullough talks about one of her favorite poems, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright.
Laura McCullough, author of The Dancing Bear and the forthcoming What Men Want, talks about another of her favorite poems, Quarantine by Eavan Boland.