The Watchers
Zakir could not recall when or how he first caught sight of the watchers. No more than a silhouette on a rooftop, a pair of knowing eyes in a passing taxi, or a waxy face peeping up through a … Read More
Mediterranean Night, Thursday, April 6, 2017, Suffolk University Poetry Center
Next week, at Suffolk, Thursday, April 6th, 7 p.m.: Mediterranean Night, a reading at the Poetry Center, Mildred Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston; entrance around the corner on Tremont Place. Olivia Kate Cerrone reading from The Hunger Saint; with … Read More
A Reading by David Ferry, Thurs March 30, 2017, 7 p.m.
David Ferry will be reading his poems and translations at the Suffolk University Poetry Center on Thursday, March 30th, at 7 p.m. The Poetry Center is located at Suffolk’s Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (entrance around the … Read More
Yusef Komunyakaa Suffolk Residency
Yusef Komunyakaa at Suffolk University, January 26 and 27 Thursday, Jan. 26 10:50-12:15 a.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. 73 Tremont St., Boston. “Sorrow Songs” and African American Poetry 1-3 p.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. … Read More
The Way It Goes: Entering History by Mary Stewart Hammond (W.W. Norton & Co., 2016).
It’s been twenty-three years since the publication of Mary Stewart Hammond’s first book, Out of Canaan. Hammond’s second, Entering History, is proof that the poet’s consciousness or “moral intelligence” has been at work these last two decades, and we … Read More
Receive Us Every One
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and … Read More
A Little Grief
There was blood. And unspeakable pain, which rolled and clenched in hard, burning waves. Sarah spent two days in the bathroom, watching the summer rains through the window and squeezing the washcloth her wife Tess had gently placed in … Read More
Gabe Dove (2016 Fiction Prize Honorable Mention)
I met Gabe Dove when I was sad and attracting men who liked me sad. There was the jeweler with goopy eyes, the lawyer who overtexted. Men with lotioned hands, combed beards, tight jeans. Many had allergies. Few ate … Read More
Incendiary Hearts: Somewhere in Space by Talvikki Ansel (Ohio State University Press, 2015).
“The wind comes through from that teeming world,” Talvikki Ansel writes in “Glaze,” a poem that appears part-way through her luminous, clear-eyed third collection Somewhere in Space, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. The … Read More
Of Love and Class: Love Is No Small Thing by Meghan Kenny (Louisiana State University Press, Yellow Shoe Fiction Series, 2017).
The stories of Meghan Kenny’s debut collection Love Is No Small Thing follow a diverse range of narrators driven by a shared longing for intimacy. Characters struggle to navigate through the ever-complicated terrain of romantic and familial relationships. In … Read More
Islanders: House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2016)
In Ishion Hutchinson’s second collection, House of Lords and Commons, we hear the voices of Port Antonio, Jamaica, with its disparity of race and wealth, remembered and re-envisioned by the poet. The book opens, in the poem “Station,” with … Read More