‘such profound opacities’

I really loathe the idea that all points in a fiction must be clear, followed-up on, and understandable like an instructional guidebook; life is just not like that. Even small moments in our lives contain such profound opacities.

Stacey Levine, interviewed by Ted Pelton, Rain Taxi (Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer 2024)

Modernist Journal Project

This looks like a fantastic resource for plumbing the full-text depths of the Modernist “little magazines”…

“The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.”

(Thanks to Denise at NewPages!)

new poems published

On Friday two of my prose poems appeared in the new issue of Umbrella Factory.

Yesterday four of my prose poems were published in the new issue of Avatar Review.

farther along the continuum

Yesterday morning I attended a funeral. Yesterday evening I attended this. The entire show was fantastic, but a highlight for me was experiencing another of Katherine Fahey‘s crankies. Last year, seeing her “Lost Gander” crankie inspired the (re)naming of this blog.

The contrast between morning and evening struck me hard. This juxtaposition of diverging moments is the rich loam where insight tethers its spindly roots.

But there are only so many pivots. And there is only so much loam.

I will be away for a while. I hope to return with photos…and maybe insight.

In the meantime, here are two poems of mine from the new issue of Gone Lawn.

Keep tending the soil while I’m out.

now available: new issue of stone highway review

The new issue of Stone Highway Review with two of my poems lurking inside is now ready to order! Print copies are $7.50. There is also a free downloadable PDF of the issue on that same page of the site, but you know you want to feel the actual paper in your hands…

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