Two Poems By M. Brett Gaffney
Instead of catching her, the crowd
shuffles gravel to make room
for her collapse, for the ghost
who’s become all too human,
their fantasy broken to the ground.
M. Brett Gaffney
October 31, 2016
Month: October 2016
They’re All Going to Laugh at You: Finding Voice Through Horror and Poetry by M. Brett Gaffney
These beasties became a way to talk about the terror of growing up, and most of them also became symbols of female empowerment. A woman to be simultaneously terrified for and of. Victim and monster.
M. Brett Gaffney
October 24, 2016
Speaking With Anne Valente
Beyond imagination, I also firmly believe in magic as a tool for subversion, of imagining not only other worlds but other possibilities for our own world. Magic questions and destabilizes our sense of the real, and tells a different story from the one we’ve been told.
Madeleine Wattenberg
October 17, 2016
From ESSAYS ON DISTANCE: A BOOK OF FAILURES by Kristina Marie Darling
“She didn’t realize how difficult it would be to describe a ghost over the telephone”
Kristina Marie Darling
October 10, 2016
Three Poems by Courtney Hartnett
“Synecdoche” “Damages” & “Say You Could Turn Your Brokenness to Birds”
Courtney Hartnett
October 3, 2016
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