Date: 1999
"Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: June 19, 2000
"The record she'd given me was playing in my mind, and I kept trying to shut it off."
preview | full record— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)
Date: June 19, 2000
"The words slid from my brain, and knotted in my stomach."
preview | full record— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)
Date: October 5th, 2007
"I didn't like looking at people when I did it, like those tribes afraid part of their soul will peel away if someone takes a picture of them."
preview | full record— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)
Date: 2009
"This librarian told me that your mind works like a computer, or maybe an old card file."
preview | full record— Chideya, Farai (b. 1969)
Date: 2011
"A yellow-brown glob would slide down the metal, and Tommie would shut her eyes, the bees and white heads of flowers nodding in the warm daylight and the silhouette of Gary’s baseball cap written across the inside of her skull."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"His thoughts washed back and forth between pitying the child and wanting to crush her, stamp her out for her own sake."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"It's about letting go of the clench in your forehead and letting your heart steer."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"His mind unwinding like a spool of loose thread."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"He stared at her little heart-shaped face and kissed her cheek and kissed her mouth and a thrilling horror spread like a stain through the hollow of his chest."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie