
Poetry by Toby Altman
An Excerpt from To Feel Things and Their Names
An Excerpt from To Feel Things and Their Names
Self-Assessment
The Rabbit Is Not A Strong Gamble
Exile
A Habit | and other poems
Reflection, on Blackberries “It is my mouth forever, I am in love with it” My mother told me that when she was a…
In its French edition, Liliane Giraudon’s Sphinx (La sphinge mange cru, Éditions Al Dante, 2013) is a slim red volume…
Read an excerpt from the novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow by Iana Boukova, translated from the Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova. This excerpt…
as genuinely interested in the pursuit of wisdom as she is resigned to the belief that she will never achieve it. . .
Brian and I sat down in an office room at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss his career, his influences, the power (and limits) of fiction, and his upcoming projects.
Solomon and I sat down to discuss writing rituals, the particularity of black Philadelphia, and disgruntlement as a rite of passage.
Tiana Clark on her debut poetry collection and how to structure a poem, a book, an essay, a writing life.
Earlier tonight, I sat on my apartment balcony in the cold and stared at the few stars that rampant light pollution allowed to break through. . .
Read MoreSaid if he didn’t put the spoon back he would call the manager. He replied what spoon? . . .
Read MoreI want a bridge fifteen thousand pedes long and twelve hundred pedes wide—one that floats atop the Bay of Baiae on which I shall…
Read MoreWe rode for two days straight into the high country up where the commas stopped growing and there was nothing but scrub brush and rocks . . .
Read MoreRead these self-help books and you won’t believe what will happen next!
Read MoreFloor map of the Dance Academy, including path to the witches’ quarters (as illustrated by footsteps) . . .
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