Date: March/April 2011
"He poured himself a brandy and lit a cigar, and tried to concentrate on other things--his many victories, the bravery of his men--but his thoughts swirled in tiny eddies, settling first here, then there, moving as the wind does from empty town to empty town."
preview | full record— Strand, Mark (b. 1934)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.
Date: April 21, 2014
"The old gag about LPs being like gasoline / Puddles that go up and dizzy us / With their fumes, and of middle age / Rotating us out of Earth's orbit, stars like / A corrupted computer file / And the forgetful mind, a red-topped / Tupperware when we were young / Now without gravity or capacity li...
preview | full record— Greenbaum, Jessica
Date: 2014
"If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw--your memory, vessel of your feelings."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"She'd heard that once and was trying to stamp the phrase on her mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)