A Look Back at a New Narrative Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 Nightboat, 511 pages, $24.95 Edited by Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian New Narrative, a late twentieth-century art movement that fused queer praxis, radical politics, and daring writing, is now on arguably on its third or fourth “wave,” but I had not encountered it until recently. Now the…
Our December online issue features advice on the holidays by Dawn Downey, an interview with poet Camille Dungy, and a view from within the Un dia sin Latinos march in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Paula Lovo. A commonplace observation of the holiday season is that…
I wish I could tell my high school self: keep doing exactly what you’re doing. I began writing when I was a wee little kiddo. I started out writing songs and making up scripts to act out with my siblings. My mom came up…
Ever since I was little, I’ve wanted to be a teacher. To me, teachers were some of my favorite people growing up, both in real life and on TV. When I got confirmed during my freshman year, my seventh grade English teacher was my…
How to Survive Christmas Alone December 17. Pull the covers over your head to block the morning light, and rest in the spot where your husband ought to be. Remember sitting here in bed beside him, propped up with pillows, a map spread between…
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade. She has also edited a number of anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. She is a professor at Colorado State University. Her latest is the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers:…
To Proclaim Our Presence Known Un dia sin Latinos, A day without Latinos What does that mean? Did we all disappear? Did we suddenly vanish back to our home countries, leaving behind the remains of your unfinished lawn, gloves left on the ground of…