Jennifer Franklin on the writing of her poem “Eurydice’s Revelation” in Salamander #44
I loved visiting the Metropolitan Museum with my family when I was a young girl. Shortly after I moved to NYC for graduate school, I began writing in the museum…
Holly Guran, Wendy Drexler, Susan Donnelly: Suffolk Poetry Center Reading on October 4, 7 p.m.
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Susan Donnelly, Wendy Drexler, and Holly Guran reading new and recent work, on Wednesday, October 4, 7 p.m., at the Suffolk University…
Emily Tuszynska on the writing of her poem “Firstborn” in Salamander #44
Our oldest child came at the tail end of a snowstorm so large even my OB was snowed in and unable to reach the hospital in time for his birth.…
Anne Champion on the writing of her poem “We Can’t Breathe” (in Salamander #44)
In 2014, I went on a peace delegation to Palestine where I witnessed the choke-hold of military occupation, and it fundamentally changed how I looked at my privilege--it was no…
Vibiana in the Half-court Set
Callie and I were thirteen the summer of ‘87, the summer the Los Angeles Lakers won the World Championship. During the school months, we were required to wear the…
Unearthing
Prayer Book of the Anxious by Josephine Yu (Elixir Press, 2016). Letters from Limbo by Jeanne Marie Beaumont (Cavan Kerry, 2016). “Oh, but the heart isn’t fooled / by…
Poetry as Resistance and Remembrance
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press, 2017). Cold Pastoral by Rebecca Dunham (Milkweed Editions, 2017). Layli Long Soldier’s first collection tasks itself with writing back to and…
Knowing the Terrain
Believe What You Can by Marc Harshman (Vandalia Press, 2016). Two Worlds Exist by Yehoshua November (Orison Books, 2016). Arsonville by David Blair (Western Michigan University Press, 2016). …
Mother Tongue
In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press, 2017). As I read Shane McCrae’s In the Language of My Captor, I thought of the…
The Spectrum of Wonders
It was 1987, and I was eighteen years old. My parents made me get a post-graduation summer job in the cafeteria of the local college, a liberal arts school…
The Great Humidity of Longing
Flower baskets drool petals and the teenage girl in her pink and black skull pajamas walks beneath the flowers without hurry. Parts of the morning are still in…
Picking Up Pecans
Ms. Pearl’s son turned on her Christmas lights so no one would know she’s not there— a row of electric candles in the window flicker blue, gold, blue again.…