What We Pass On: A Conversation with Martha Park
By Interview Issue 125
I don’t know if it’s getting older, but as I and people around me experience more loss in our personal lives, I’ve been coming to a sense of the reality that life is shaped around loss—not despite it but because of it.
Read MoreTaxonomies of Grief
By Editorial Issue 125
The world warms up, the prairifire crabapple trees begin to drop their blossoms in almost technicolor puddles on the sidewalks in my neighborhood and, as if in concert, the base of my neck gets heavy and sore.
Read MoreAuguries and Offerings
By Editorial Issue 123
I’m always looking around for omens.
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation between Molly McCully Brown and Amanda Cordero
By Interview Web Exclusive
When I heard in our staff meeting that Molly McCully Brown was joining our team as editor in chief, I immediately started clapping. And she deserves the applause, all of it—a month in, Molly has brought to the table what we always knew she would bring: a practiced sense of wonder, a capacious literary sensibility,…
Read MoreNebraskan Mystery
By Editorial Issue 122
Really, this is why I’ve always loved and needed poems: they sustain the contemplative hours of the early, unbreeched morning, whenever you come to them.
Read MoreBent Body, Lamb
By Essay Issue 88
Really, though, I’m struggling. Is it absurd to adhere to a religion whose most central rituals my body won’t even let me perform? What am I to make of all the parables in the New Testament where Jesus heals the crippled and the lame? And, most importantly, if I believe we’ll all eventually be resurrected back into the world, then is this body—this bruised, broken, wreck of a form—the one I’m stuck with for all time?
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