The Other

JH: Congratulations on your first book diatomhero: religious poems. I treasure how this poetry holds every religion responsible for being authentic and explores exactly what kind of turmoil/freedom of movement (of creed, language, time, space) arises in such a busy atmosphere. I’m thinking specifically of Christianity’s notion of finite resting places (blazing hot or room-temperature) [...]

The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from writer Catherine Lacey. Catherine reads

New Year’s in Corfu Above the village of Gastouri, during Kaiser Wilhelm II’s reign, Corfu’s Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, summered at the Achillion Palace. A recreation of a Phaeacian Palace, it was used as a hospital during World War II. It was later transformed into a casino. I would have kept us as we were [...]

Contrapuntal By Christopher Kondrich Parlor Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1602353671 Music, for being such a well-diffused cultural product, can be challenging to adequately write about. Like many creative disciplines, it commands its own lexicon and sits atop a tall barrier of entry. But this shouldn’t preclude anyone who wants to get hip-deep; we’ve all experienced music [...]

Life’s a Beach Life is waves. Waves create a craving for Dr. Pepper, something sweet to cut salty somersaults that get water in yr inner ear, and deft kelp evasion, and hours and hours coaxing friends further in but they never want to go out as far as you– past the point of wave-beaten, past [...]

Ornithology Lesson First thing we should do/if we see each other again is to make/a cage of our bodies —Nick Flynn, forgetting something 1. You find me pirouetting slow in a tent before an exaltation of men, dim lights, the scent of refuse and popcorn and tobacco spit, the clink of coins changing hands, the [...]

Dear Uncle Sam He’s not your type. He kisses men with eyes open, talks with them shaded or averted to acquiescent asses. When cordoned & questioned, he laughs. Beware. His laughter beguiles. Beware. He never shoots straight. Always curls fetal in the arms of any one who can still him. Never sleeps alone. Give him [...]