Make Lists Not War
Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War eight…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Our Only Salvation Lies in Words: On Arenas’s Before Night Falls
All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life. All affirmations of life are diametrically opposed to dogmatic regimes. It was logical for Fidel Castro to persecute us, not to let us fuck, and to try to…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: I Know Some of the Best People
And I want to tell you about them. There’s Buffalo Meg who is from Buffalo, New York and has a pitch to convince anyone she meets to move there. There’s Hannah Frank who is addicted…
A Friend Sent Me This Poem (We Inter-Are)
March 14 by Katie Murphy It’s Amazing, Isn’t It? I can be, at one moment, sitting at my table in the morning, Annoyed at my boss for being an incomprehensible moron, Pissed off at a…
Where the Tortured and the Torturer Shook Hands
How many of our most famous novelists, for instance, have bothered to take the two-and-a-half hour flight from Miami and see for themselves what’s going on here? —Lawrence Ferlinghetti I first read Seven Days…
When I Am a Supreme Practitioner of Self-Care
Having a rejuvenating ninety-four minutes On the phone when all alone With Bella Levenshteyn
Recognition Mantra for Driving on Highway 40
They are just like me They too want to go as fast as possible And not die On the way
Recognition Mantra for Driving on Highway 40
They are just like me They too want to go as fast as possible And not die On the way
I Like To See “Selfies”
They are a bell of mindfulness Reminding me of one of my favorite songs From the Beatles’ Let It Be George singing “I Me Mine”
Powerless
The following is an excerpt from part 2 of The Book of Mev. By mid-December, Mev had grown very quiet. I’d estimated she was knocked out for 20 hours a day. Was she asleep? …