Interviews

Punctuate in Conversation with Elizabeth Kadetsky

Punctuate editor, Re’Lynn Hansen, engaged in email conversation with Elizabeth Kadetsky, winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Kadetsky is the author of The Memory Eaters, a lyric memoir, published by U. Mass Press this month. Her three previous books include On…

March 10, 2020
Book Reviews

Kat Read Reviews Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women

  Three Women Lisa Taddeo Avid Reader Press, $15.99   In her book Three Women, Lisa Taddeo tells the stories of three women and their relationship to desire by examining the ways they are socialized to obscure their needs and playact around their wants.…

March 10, 2020
Book Reviews

Timothy Parfitt Reviews Rob Halpern’s book Weak Link

Weak Link Rob Halpern Atelos, $12.95 200 pages Weak Link is a collection of odds and ends from poet and essayist Rob Halpern, some of which didn’t make it into his previous books, some of which have been expanded upon or updated, and others…

March 10, 2020
Essays

Susan Nash

Leaving A Trace   Last week I learned that my fingerprints are disappearing.  I was standing on the X outlined in pink tape on the floor, pressing the four fingers of my right hand onto the glass.  The tech nodded her head. “Yep,” she…

March 10, 2020
Essays

Naomi Washer

With Bruno   In my first memory of life, which I recall as both observer and observed, I am four years old and waiting in the wings. I am waiting for my cue to burst out onto the stage. I can feel the heat…

March 10, 2020
Essays

Michelle Menting

Segues Sealed   It’s the holiday, but the bird is gone. Breadcrumb stuffing goes on to explore new stomach linings. After the table is cleared, plates scraped, plates stacked, I take the stairs, walk down to the basement floor. Down there: photographs, webbed and mature, glass shards giving…

March 10, 2020