Fiction
… Sr. had been in the country for a week. He’d decided to come early to revisit some of the places he’d been during … had come early to Vietnam. Rowen Sr.’s former Air Force buddies were spread all around the aviation industry, the … He sat almost primly, his knees close together, a briefcase on the ground parallel to his thighs, a benign, …
Essays
… consciousness, regarded the whole matter with a certain complacency. Let the objects of science become familiar … have poetry of the complete sensibility one must have an audience whose sensibility is unimpaired. On the assumption … the Spirit of Secular Science, who would like to set up falsely as the God, the Ruler of the Universe.” He would give …
Plays
… day in, day out, like a beetle on my back, an’ not a soul comes nigh me, saving th’ Mester, when ‘e’s forced. An’ ‘im. (She points to mirror of dressing table.) Nurse Who is that, … kill it, nor let me, neither would he go near it, so it died of starvation, an’ ‘e throwed a hammer at me for …
Poetry
… in Albuquerque during most of his time on the “Hill.” She died in 1945, shortly before the Trinity test. Once people …
Poetry
… pretty, too, but mom says makeup is inappropriate for funerals. I thought if I sat you on my lap, your eyelids might … I want him. We never have sex, but it feels like we do. You died, I haven’t lived out the ages since. I find a fuller …
… to school desegregation in the late 1950’s, no area of the Commonwealth resisted more massively-or longer-than Prince … Edward County in the decades since Massive Resistance died out. Mr. Smith’s essay describes that change. He wrote … and the Sublime. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, The Southern Review, and Michigan …