She’s sure she can’t be dreaming, becuase she can feel Nora’s hand on hers. The touch is light, barely there, but the cold bracelt is enough to bring her into the morning, back into the colorless room.“Aunt Peggy,” Nora whispers. “You’re having a bad dream.” The tops of Nora’s fingersgraze her forearm, . . .
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Emma Boldens’ latest poetry collection, The Tiger and the Cage, is out with Soft Skull Press. Two of Emma’s poems were published in MR Volume 59, Issue 3. Catherine Ciepiela’s translations of Polina Barskova’s Living Pictures is out with New York Review Books. Catherine’s translations of Barskova were published in the spring issue of MR . . .
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It is not insistent. It is not desperately clinging to the is, the are. It is familiar with the dusk.(I write, “It is familiar with the dusk,” words.) It does not call Do you believe, do you believe.—from “A Meadowlark in Arrow Rock, Mo.” Volume 63, Issue 3 (Fall 2022) Tell us about . . .
Read MoreIn this full-day event, the morning session focused on collective commemoration of the life of Jules Chametzky–the teacher, mentor, scholar, family man, and activist. The proceedings open with a poem written for the occasion, read by its author, Martín Espada. Memories from family members follow, and then those of friends. The morning . . .
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O Germany, thank you for beerThat we relish this time of the year.A Sober October?My dears, that’s a NoperWith so many brews to revere! Oktoberfest Märzens are fine,As are Festbiers if you’re so inclined.Yet there’s more than these stylesFor us Germanophiles—And for you I have sampled these kinds. 1Foam-headed, light-bodied, and darkIs . . .
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I will try to put this in perspective in the coming weeks. Heading down to Ocean Road Beach just after sunrise, standing at the water’s edge, looking toward the horizon for signs of calm and peace, I’ll interpret an overhead blue heron as postive harbinger, a far-off tanker as portent of stability.—from . . .
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Cover Art: Susan Jahoda, From the series (in preparation for absence), Untitled, silver print, 16×20 inches, 1999. ©Susan Jahoda, used with permission. All Rights Reserved. A PDF of Roe: Telling the Tale is available here. Available from Amazon, Kobo, and Weightless Books. (All profits from sales will be donated to the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts)
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BEFORE MY HUSBAND, Len Berkman, and I married in September 1962, we spent the summer of that year in my hometown, San Jose, California. While working as a reporter for the Milpitas Post on the outskirts of San Jose, Lenny met Patricia Theresa “Pat” Maginnis. Pat offered night classes in English to . . .
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At the university where I worked part-time the most it would cost $700 per month for just my health insurance, much more for my family. This university owned like a quarter of the city. Maybe you could get your BA in landlording. Trump is one of their best-known alums. In those years . . .
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Anthony Gormley, “Float,” 1992. Author’s collection. With kind permission from the author and artist. This essay was written in Rome on the eve of what may be a turning point in the fortunes of democracy, the political system that Plato called a “ship of fools” for its tendency to elect incompetent captains . . .
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