“A Bow From My Shadow”
I began reading A Bow From My Shadow—a new collection of poetry by Luke Irwin
and Alex Miller Jr., available from Ecco Qua Press—in a car wash.
The thud-slap-thud of the
Seth Morgan
Seth Morgan currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he teaches a drug prevention class for middle-schoolers, tutors, elementary students and serves as Lay Missioner for Southside Abbey, an Epi
What it’s Like to be Tajik
Shamsiddin makes rock candy. Each week he receives a shipment of sugar in tall
plastic sacks. He melts it with water in a cauldron as wide as my arm-span and
boils it all
Like See-Through Birds
Five times that I can remember I’ve fallen for a novel so hard I’ve
inadvertently prayed for its characters. The first was T.H. White’s sprawling,
maudlin Arthurian epic The
So God Made a Farmer
Picture a farmer. No, not one from the “God Made a Farmer”
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE]Super Bowl ad. Someone you actually
know or at least have seen in person.
Digging and Reading
Friday morning Earth hands me a hoe. Today we will till the garden, he tells me
in Thai—which I don’t understand. But I understand the hoe. Up the hill, we go