NEWS (8/1/18): Call for multilingual work for a new "Bsided Responds" feature. AND the TEACH section launches with a beautiful, inspiring essay by Michael McGriff. Scroll for more!
Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Elizabeth Terhune: Inspiration. First, mantis. Drawn up short, abruptly, thought’s space interrupted, invaded, to fixed attention, hearing: mantis. Synonym: mystery. Ghost Mantis. Doubles that. Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: I’ve always thought of this poem as a bit scrappy, but when I saw the precisely smudged and veined edging of the mantis shape, I couldn’t help thinking of that last line as empowering and beautiful for both the mantis and the reader.
Collaborators: Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Artist Elizabeth Terhune is a painter. She works in oil and watercolor and makes drawings in ink and pencil.
We are pleased to begin rolling out articles and lesson plans for teachers with Michael McGriff’s beautiful, moving essay, “Broadsides as Adventure and Architecture.” Someone has just spray-painted a phrase from her favorite Sappho fragment on a brick wall. Someone…
Call for Submissions: Work In Multiple Languages Many writers move through the world speaking and thinking in more than one language, whether they were raised in a house that spoke two or more languages, lived in multiple countries over their…
The Woman who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge University of New Mexico Press, 2016 $18 Paperback; ISBN 9780826356529 80 Pages; UNM Press In The Woman Who Married a Bear, Tiffany Midge straddles myth and reality, rendering each in the…
