Further Reading
Gracile
by David Armstrong
Gracile. An esoteric word, certainly. A thesaurus word if ever there were one. Gloria is gracile. Slender, small, compact. A pixie gold haircut and tanned cheeks. Twenty-two and suffering from recent disappointments reaped from a year abroad interning in Tanzania at the Jane Goodall Institute. Twenty-two, graduated with a biology degree, specialization in zoological sciences, […]
Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott: Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter
Andrew Hudgins is the author of The Joker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010), Shut Up, You’re Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children (Overlook Press 2009), Ecstatic in the Poison (Sewanee/Overlook Press 2003), Babylon in a Jar (Houghton Mifflin 1998), The Glass Anvil (University of Michigan 1997), Saints and Strangers, After The Lost War: A Narrative, The Never-Ending: New […]
My Father Dreams of a New Country
by Ruth Awad
Lebanon, 1978 America, I see through your glass— I reach my hand and my fingerprints are everywhere. Like leaves the gust blows in. I don’t have money to feed your fountains or enough water that it’s never a wish, but America, I can’t stop drinking you in. Your trains, their freight like hours, like the […]
