Three Poems for a Late Migration
Three short poems written across one unusually warm autumn, tracking a migration that kept not arriving on schedule.
Essays
A House With Too Many Doors
A review of Ilse Kovac's new novel about three sisters who inherit a house that keeps rearranging itself.
Instructions for Leaving a Small Town
A poem in six parts about packing a car before dawn and what gets left behind on the porch.
A Short Defense of Getting Lost
A phone in every pocket has made genuine, unbothered lostness almost impossible to find, which is a smaller loss than it sounds and a real one anyway.
An Interview with the Cartographer Who Refuses to Finish Her Map
Cartographer Noor Aziz on thirty years spent redrawing the same coastline, and why a finished map is a kind of lie.
Nocturne for a Small Airport
A single long poem set entirely inside a regional airport after the last commercial flight has left for the night.
In Praise of the Marginal Note
On the readers, forgers, and obsessives who left their handwriting in the margins of secondhand books.
An Interview with the Beekeeper Who Doesn't Wear a Veil
He works his hives bare-handed and bare-faced, and insists the veil is less protective than the stillness it usually replaces.
Nothing Happens, Beautifully
A review of the festival favorite "Low Tide," a two-hour film about a family that mostly just waits for the ferry.
Two Poems Written at the Edge of a Field
Two poems, each written in the time it takes to stand at the edge of a field and actually look at it, rather than simply pass by.
What the Quarry Remembers
A former limestone quarry, now the town swimming hole, holds its history in rings almost no one has learned to read.
The Architecture of the Strip Mall, Reconsidered
The strip mall is the most honest building type we have produced in a century - it promises nothing it does not deliver, which may be why we cannot forgive it.
