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Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr, University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writer's Series, 2009 All readings were made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Books, as well...
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Charles Simic
Charles Simic at the Bankhead Visiting Writer's Series, University of Alabama, March 2004 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. The...
2013 Contest: A Look Back at Fiction Winner Mari Christmas
Mari Christmas is pursuing an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canary Press and Paragraphiti. Baby by Mari Christmas “I didn’t agree to do this.” Let’s try this again. Let’s take it from the street corner. ...
2013 Contest: A Look Back at Poetry Winner Hannah Aizenman
Hannah Aizenman hails from Birmingham, AL, and is an MFA student in poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, plain china, Three Rivers Review, and Collision Literary Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn. History, or...
National Poetry Month: I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE ALMOST AND THE ONCE by Cindy Beebe
I Wanted to Write About the Almost and the Once by Cindy Beebe upon a time my mother almost worked at the Park Avenue Funeral Home. Where she would’ve styled the hair of the newly deceased population there and even the brand new babies. Her duties would...
National Poetry Month: IMAGINE IF EVERYONE YOU EVER LOVED NEVER STOPPED by Kallie Falandays
Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped by Kallie Falandays Touching you. If you never stopped changing: You’re still in your bedroom: blue lamp-light, still teenage-hurt, no alarm clock. How do you get up in the morning after being held down by so...
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson
Jacket Copy for 'A Yellow Pencil in Midair Kept Sketching' by Adam Atkinson Things are either metaphors or not in these poems. "Three ghosts pin / the tail on the reader." Ghost or literal ghost? Literate ghosts know these poems by heart: I Must Live Forever;...
National Poetry Month: THE SHAPE OF IT by Wendy Xu
The Shape of It by Wendy Xu I wake up and inherit the world as anybody has left it. Perhaps later, some windowless thinking. A red goat stares at me from the kitchen table, his confident black eyes moving in slow passes across my face. It goes on like this. I...
National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARAIT by Blake Lee Pate
Exo-Secretariat by Blake Lee Pate Exo-girl convinced the boss her girls are hot, have skirts, nice handwriting. 8:00 a.m. We're period plagued and auto-receiving at our desks splitting our hair ends & running our stock- ings up & down the halls. WE DO...
National Poetry Month: ANTERIOR OF A RAZED ROOM by Cori A. Winrock
Anterior of a Razed Room by Cori A. Winrock What corseting—: the room cinched in as the wrecking drill bores down, its metal threaded vertebrae spiraling slow through our plaster and horsehair insulation, the seven-layer wallpapers caked over and over...