Born and raised in Maine, Fishouse Editor & Executive Director Matt O’Donnell graduated from Holy Cross and earned an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In July 2022, after more than twenty years at Bowdoin College, where he was editor of Bowdoin Magazine, he embarked on a new adventure as […]
Local knowledge tells of good fishing on the southern lip. He rests his paddle, drifts with the canoe in quiet water over a ledge that runs the lake’s width. The line unspools an arcing trill while, silent as bait, he casts again toward the rocks, sees her there, treading water where, stretched, she could stand. […]
My best friend and I lobbed wooden bingo chips at the back of her habit. Uniformed children craving attention, bored with accent aigu and accent grave, hoping to evoke a Mon dieu! or our favorite, Ooh la, la!, we were unprepared for her outburst of tears and spittle. You kids can go to Hell! And […]
Things shifted into higher gear despite me. Or on account of me. Why not be honest? […]