Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Trauma While in Prison
Personal Essay - “The hyper-masculine environment of a prison creates additional impediments. Inmates fear that any sign of weakness might lead another inmate to take advantage, another reason not to speak openly with others. Sexual abuse is at the top of the list of things prisoners will not talk about.” 11/12/2023

You Tread on My Dreams
Personal Essay - “Allow me to be unambiguous: I am no one’s BIPOC mannequin. I am a person foremost and not a skin color, and I will not be cheapened nor reduced. I am not marginalized, and I need no special treatment. I refuse your categories.” 11/6/2023

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians
Poetry - “There’s also a roadside historical marker/noting the massacre of the Lee family/by ‘an Indian war party’ in 1782.” 11/4/2023

Excerpt: “Red Hands”
Fiction - “It had taken an earthquake for me to see Ceausescu greed as it really was, and I knew how bad these excesses would look to my countrymen.” 10/30/2023

Prima Facie
Poetry - “‘Sometimes all a man needs is a horizon/in which to vanish,’ I thought.” 10/29/2023

Dying in Amsterdam
Poetry - “What magnificent coordination. A ballet/on wheels. Impossible, but there it was/day after rainy day, not one collision.” 10/15/2023

From Town Bloody Hall to 2023: A Tale of Two Debates on Women’s Liberation
Criticism - “Avoiding these truly current, red hot issues, the women speak past each other.” 10/3/2023

With Action, Gran Turismo Crosses the Finish Line. With Drama, Not So Much
Criticism - “On the basis of viscerality alone, Gran Turismo is worth the price of admission for the two-hour cruise along.” 9/25/2023

Un Carro Triste: A Melancholic Car
Poetry - “We must take the language/by surprise;/seal its every utterance/with a kiss or tear…” 9/15/2023

On the Road to Damascus
Poetry - “So here I am in the Radnor Township/Police Department Drunk Tank/in a white paper jumpsuit, shoelaces/removed to be sure I don’t hang myself…” 9/13/2023

Dictionary
Poetry - “Sometimes—in the middle of fair night—/when disobedient moon turns vandal/and violently rips off the bolts/of my window-shutters, my eyelids…” 8/30/2023

Bird Life: A Triptych
Poetry - “No thought, as that of mine, to complete the bare/Purpose of their being, which is to feed and breed,/Become another edible, leave another seed.” 8/26/2023

Mark Goldblatt and the Art of Persuasion
Criticism - “I cannot argue with his characterization of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes as a ‘triumvirate of stooges,’ but with me, he is preaching to the choir. How will he convince the postmodernists?” 8/16/2023

Doing the Woke
Personal Essay - “The more these women agreed to be shamed for their ‘whiteness,’ the more I wondered why doing so made them feel ethical. Feeling shame makes nobody ethical. Just uncomfortable.” 7/26/2023

Review: “Yellowface” by R.F. Kuang
Criticism - “Yellowface has its strengths. Kuang is terrific when parodying the loathsome impulses of social media and book reviewers. She also offers wisdom about the publishing industry and the inner life of a writer.” 7/21/2023
