Further Reading
WATCHING MY MOTHER BAKE
by Michael Meyerhofer
Strangest of all was the knife, how gingerly she pushed it through the soft raw crust of the pie freshly-formed on the oven’s surface, preheat already rising in waves, her glance warning me not to touch— the same woman who decided, a week before my seventh birthday, to have me circumcised […]
Poetry as Conversation with Alina Pleskova and Caroline Shurtleff
Alina Pleskova released her first full-length book of poems, Toska, in June of this year with Deep Vellum Press. I read the collection with excitement in just one afternoon. Then, we wrote back and forth together in the interview below in which we discussed the nature of Pleskova’s writing process as a collective, the concept […]
Home by Michael Czyzniejewski
This is what’s transpired the past seven weeks: My son Max started dating Brittany Schoenmeier, a cute girl he’s known since kindergarten, dating for two weeks before cheating on her with Avery Constantini, another cute girl he’s known all his life, making Brittany break up with him, but not hate him, because a week later, […]