Ornithology 103
We came to study the seagulls. When our field trip to the sea didn’t pan out (budget cuts), we caravanned to the dump, fording through oceans of crud to see the […]
Sarah Giragosian
Sarah Giragosian Q&A on her current project
Sarah Giragosian talks about her latest book project, a poetry collection titled The First Hunger, and reads the poem “Ornithology 103” from the collection.
Sarah Giragosian Q&A on the genesis of ‘Death Spiral’
Sarah Giragosian on the genesis if her poem “Death Spiral.”
Terlingua, TX Haibun
In the ghost town, a way station until E.’s wedding, you keep your vow to a dry-tongued silence. You heed every rustle of snakeweed and honeyed blessing, stay clear of cowboy eyes and jackknives, freshly sharpened. If secrecy is the heirloom of the desert, I will plant ours in the mouth of a horned lizard. […]
Mammoth Resurrected
Before my birth, father was more than fossil; pickled in tundra, he still had his undercoat of grizzle, teeth, and a knee broken […]
The Death Spiral
The [American bald eagles’]…cartwheel display or death spiral…is chief among their spectacular courtship rituals…The two soar up to high altitude, lock talons, and tumble and cartwheel toward Earth. They let go before reaching the ground—except when they don’t. […]
Sarah Giragosian
Sarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collection Queer Fish (Dream Horse Press, 2017), a winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and The Death Spiral (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). The craft anthology, Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, which is co-edited by Sarah and Virginia Konchan, is […]