Your Will Is Always
yours—no matter you can’t amble much or gamble, your temples are wailing like a trombone or that you’ve hit a dead-end occupation: talker amid texters, reader among scanners, writer among…
Two Poems from A Manual for Living (after Epictetus) Faithful Is Not Blind Belief
It’s hateful to be mistaken or forsaken. Worse yet to be bitter, full of spite. Which is why you should believe that all is not random: That awful marriage that…
Two Poems from A Manual for Living (after Epictetus) Faithful Is Not Blind Belief
It’s hateful to be mistaken or forsaken. Worse yet to be bitter, full of spite. Which is why you should believe that all is not random: That awful marriage that…
The Convention
[Climate Control] Room 551 begins to fill with fog flowing in under the windows and we discuss between kisses what laps over the levee. [Room 551 Party] The Chilean has…
Miami as Lover
All through this black moon night I’ve been woken by offers of sex and the weeping chorus of balcony dogs. I ask you to turn on the fan, to lift…
The Commiseration of Whale-Watchers
The Commiseration of Whale-Watchers Whale-watchers, we do not want to hear about your afternoon squinting into the light. We know only too well how heartache comes at the end of…
Pushcart Prize Nominations: 2013
Salamander is happy to announce our 2013 nominees for the Pushcart Prize, celebrating "The Best of the Small Presses": Poetry: “A Flemish Still Life” by Ellen Kaufman, Salamander, vol. 18.2…