by Jeri McCormick | Oct 18, 2019 | Magazine Article
I am lazing around, sharing my attic roomwith Cincinnati’s swelter and three more booksfrom the library—Girl of the Limberlost, Jo’s Boys,Dr. Doolittle—when the church bells begin to ringand the kitchen radio raises its decibels, castingsome sort of...
by Mary Wehner | Oct 18, 2019 | Magazine Article
One would expect gracklesor crows, purple necks stretched outin the backstreet gloom, flutteringfrom dumpster to chain-link fence. But here come the wayward geesefanning out over asbestos shingleslanding flat-footed on the parking lotin an artful unraveling fuss....
by Robert Russell | Oct 18, 2019 | Magazine Article
In what seems another lifetime,I drove a bus for Greyhound.Riders weren’t allowed to talk to the driver,and I couldn’t talk to them—company rules—and I wasn’t allowed to look at a map,at least not when anyone was watching.I remember the long silences between stopslate...
by Kayla Knaack | Aug 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
tires screech; mother sleepsblood seeps from my forehead gashbroken windshield glassthen blue and red lights flashacross my mother who can’t walk the lineslap on the cuffs; clipped wings of a dove “safe now,” say the strangers“tell us everything; trust us,” they...
by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Spectral presences flit in and out of In Light, Always Light, Milwaukee poet Angela Trudell Vasquez’s first chapbook. Ghosts appear with purposeful messages, the voices of dead ancestors echo, and human remains float over a city. But In Light, Always Light is at the...
