Nancy White

interviewed by Derek Alger

Originally published on August 6, 2010

Nancy White’s most recent poetry collection, Detour, was published by Tamarack Editions (March, 2010). Her first poetry collection, Sun, Moon, Salt, won the Washington Prize for Poetry in 1992. White currently teaches English at Adirondack Community College, after previously teaching at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn and at Bennington College. A graduate with an MFA [...]

Oh, Brother, Glad You’re Still With Us

by Derek Alger

Originally published on August 6, 2010

My mother always told us if something ever happened, if we were ever injured or in trouble, the first thing we should say when we called in such a situation was “I’m okay,” before going into the specifics about whatever had happened. I came home late from a meeting at work in the Bronx the [...]

Listening to the Rear-View Mirror

by Bruce Bromley

Originally published on August 1, 2010

On a few late afternoons, she walks to where the earth ends, while her sister from the village that Safiyyah continues to feel taut in her bones watches over the boys, steams their rice [...]

Onward and Upward with the House

by Lissa Richardson

Originally published on August 1, 2010

On Monday, August 16th, Richard Hugo House’s 2010-2011 Literary Series tickets go on sale (http://www.hugohouse.org/content/hugo-literary-series). Each season, the House hosts four events, commissioning three authors and a song writer or a band to write on a theme and prompt dreamt up by the Hugo House staff.  The series sits at the core of the House’s [...]

An Honest Man

by John Lee Clark

Originally published on August 1, 2010

My best friend Paul was sweet to come all the way from Mankato when my wife left me. At the door, Paul stood as tall as I and we hugged. Then he signed, “Look good you. How manage you? Can’t imagine. If my wife left for sure me gunheadshoot will.” I gave him a don’t-be-silly [...]

One Way Wagon

by Carolyn Smart

Originally published on August 1, 2010

this is not a wagon, but a cage upon the long bed of a truck chained by the neck we climbed on board from Waco to Huntsville all the way I wondered what I’d see when we arrived I was a skinny kid and full of fear they told me of ‘the bat’, the beating [...]

One Good Bad Way

by John Lee Clark

Originally published on August 1, 2010

you can make me really famous is going to the bookstore carrying a suspicious-looking bag. When you get to me in the line for my autograph, you can blow me away with how much of me you can quote. Then you should hold my book close as you walk away, leaving behind your bag to [...]

Sh*t My Dad Says

reviewed by Richard Luck

Originally published on August 1, 2010

What followed is nothing short of publishing history, as Halpern went from zero Twitter followers to a book deal with HarperCollins in less than two months. But that’s a topic for another story…

The All of It

by Tracey Donnelly

Originally published on August 1, 2010

“Just get rid of it,” she said. “All of it. Empty is always better.  Better than this anyway.” This realtor gave Nora the number for Tillet’s Auction House. This realtor always had a pen. The number appeared in loops on the front of yet another card. “I keep them handy,” she said and turned on [...]

Grasshopper Penthouse Magazine

by Brenton Rossow

Originally published on August 1, 2010

Self hate tickles and calls. I choose Mani. People call me Mani in this town. Many a year has passed since I rowed my boat to the island in the middle… but I’m back—talking sideways to the motto geeks—roaming dead with a mantis sketched hard. The cigarettes disgust and inflict. The Raskmey Makara weeps insects [...]