Jun 12
The Things You Can’t Remember Become the Things You Can’t Forget by Lori Jakiela (Roadside Press) Lori Jakiela’s The Things You Can’t Remember Become the Things You Can’t Forget is subtitled “an object/memoir in verse,” but that description hardly captures the ambitious emotional and intellectual terrain this remarkable collection traverses. Beginning with a tarnished silver …
Oct 03
Scapegoat One day, when I was 10 and out past dark but barely, I knew my father would be furious. My father worked all day in a machine shop. He came home evenings, his skin black with graphite, his mood molten steel. When my mother told my father to beat me for some infraction I’d …
May 19
The Devil’s Haircut I was in sixth grade when my mother, fed up with the long blonde hair I’d resist brushing, sick of the knots and tangles that grew like nettle-ridden shrubs underneath, took me to Esther. Esther was, in theory, a beautician, which is what people called hair stylists back then, but I never …
