Mean Time
She asked for a pillow. I brought her a fork. She asked for a cigarette. I brought her a […]
after Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers,Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1890Toledo Museum of Art He wears no shrouded hood,
We were abused by being made to abuse one another: who could stand longest kicked in the crotch? Roll in
It doesn’t matter if he forgets sometimes how to speak English, slips back into French, because he doesn’t say much
I currently teach English (at least this semester—you never know) as an adjunct at El Camino College and Cal State Long Beach. The word ‘adjunct’ means a thing added to something else, supplementary and inessential. It’s the outsider status that has always informed my poetry.
Columbia senior Emma Sulkowicz has been hauling her own dorm mattress around campus every day [because] the student she says