January 1, 2026 – "On New Year’s Eve, you look backward and forward at the same time. Time stops, and you are in the now. You ...

Dream. “Pline,” a kind of traditional ice cream, was being phased out at a beachside inn, and the locals were enraged. Dream.

The feelings of love coming up when I thought about him started to get overwhelming. It felt like my life had started its ...

December 17, 2025 – “ ‘I got a camera for $7.98—a Brownie,’ Babitz notes on December 21, 1969, ‘and have been taking pictures of palm trees which are turning out very well.’ ” ...

After eight glorious weeks of freedom, I got rehired. First thing I did was walk over to the machine shop to look for my F-150. The oil stain was there but the truck wasn’t. It wasn’t in the rock lot ...

The old people are going apeshit for the mariachis. My dad and I are sitting on a bench in the plaza at the bottom of the hill, killing time before the next play. We were hoping to do a little reading ...

The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page reads. An older edition bears a similarly anodyne title: From Birmingham to Wendover. Both are a misdirection, ...

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I tend not to think that stuff other people think is obvious is obvious. Everyone feels like they have some sense of Frost. Everyone knows a poem or two. That kind of overexposure lends an aspect of ...

A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that might be, is always in the studio, always in its studio. Its—but in what way do that place and practice belong to it?

When I get dressed, I become a philosopher-king—not in the sense of presiding over utopia, but in the sense of trying to marry politics and intellect in the perfect imitation of God. Political ...

I once saw a Lego metaphor for translation. On some online forum somewhere. that you have purchased the Hogwarts Castle Lego set. You have given up the dining room table for this project. You get ...