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Notes on Writing about Sexual Violence

“What would happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser asks in her oft-quoted poem “Käthe Kollwitz,” “if…

Death of a Family

I. When did we become mortal enemies? You campaigned early and hard to be our…

The Patient Records

1.It begins in the middle like this: the sun sets quietly in a Brooklyn sky.…

Anger in the Service of our Vision and future

Several weeks ago I wrote about the need to stoke our anger and nurture it…

I am angry, editor

Dear Editor, I thank you for this invitation. Funny, I composed a poem about the…

Eleven: An Autobiographical Assemblage

Clock I was born with a clock. No twin bells ringing as I made my…

Architecture of a Staircase

11am on a Wednesday I started the day considering the figure but soon became preoccupied…

“The Birth of a Translator” excerpt from Self-Portrait in Bloom

And so began a new life, illuminated already in the choosing of what to translate,…

Reading the Palimpsest

You are a mouse. You have a comfortable home. A dense layer of wood chips…

Tender Birria

[A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: As my lesbian marriage was disintegrating, I experimented with dating…