Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way, a novel: First published in 1970, this coming-of-age novel of the 1950’s, described as “The Midwestern Catcher in the Rye,” has been reprinted in a new edition with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. A film based on Wakefield’s own adaptation was released this past fall. (Indiana)
The funicular, effortless as a toy, glides humming to a stop halfway uphill. Teeming with tourists, the steps break halfway again at a terrace where we pause to catch our breath, and half of Paris— though today, in the August haze, the view from Montmartre is just the odd tin…
It was July and the peaches were green a man born in the year of the chicken with no knack for wealth or common knowledge lowered the box full of green peaches for a girl to see a girl at the front gate turning eight and waiting for a thing of wheels this is where…
John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares and Emerson College are pleased to present Carolyn Ferrell with the seventh annual John C. Zacharis Award for her collection of stories, Don’t Erase Me, which was published this summer by Houghton Mifflin. The $1,500 award — which is funded by Emerson College and named after the college’s former president —…
A piece of paper Which appeared to be blank But on which we see Writing had faded. “My first is of the Possessive of those Given to possession. And my last, the finality Of that proposition. In entirety I give That which in three worlds doth live. Ungainly in the two; In all, long-legged beauty,…
At this distance, from the other shore, looking across the river north and east, you just can’t tell what kind of trees they are, feathered in those ideal humid greens in a sort of flow toward the horizon and the ocean. In perspective they diminish to depletion, into the sunset’s haw and haze, as if…
With his two hands covering his two eyes he prays in the middle of the road over the clump of fur and bone that was himself. He looks like my old zayde in the synagogue two decades ago ashamed for his poverty. Comedian of the hard frost, deft…
MASTHEAD Guest Editors Howard Norman & Jane Shore Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Associate Editor Susan Conley Assistant Fiction Editor Maryanne O'Hara Founding Editor DeWitt Henry Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Editorial Assistants: Darla Bruno, Gregg Rosenblum, and Tom Herd. Poetry Readers: Paul Berg, Brian Scales, Michael Henry, Renee Rooks, Charlotte Pence, R. J….
Antonia’s midwifed for centuries turning bloody breeches to the ripening light. Their heads wash up to the sun. Light’s trapped here, and the shore’s decor is silky and pink-veined. Trumpets, periwinkles, cockles, gorgeous mouths of pain. And babies roll deliciously on this packed-down beach. Once she ground her luminescent stones with herbs—charms for new pain….
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