Claire Stephens is a Visiting Instructor in the English Department at the University of South Florida. A cartoonist, designer, and writer, Claire tells stories...
Talking Refrigerators:
David Ebenbach on his book We Were the People Who Moved
I discovered David Ebenbach’s poetry through editing Sweet—I picked some of his wonderful...
The Complex and Interconnected World:
An Interview With Derrick Austin
I had the pleasure of meeting Derrick Austin back in 2009 while we were both undergraduates...
Dear Derrick Austin,
I have just finished reading your newly published collection of poetry, Trouble the Water. I began reading your book on my couch...
Harpoon
Moonlight drapes the garden with a lullabycold as a harpoon. It knows its target,the heart. Later, the helpless, useful thingwill dive and flail, ribcage...
Tree for the Forest
Century Tree, St. Louis, MO
nested concentric,one to another, accumulated. History isboth the quick injury that broke a young limb and...
Mundane Scar
Papi reclines on the couch
a dark shadow in the dim
lighting of the family
room. His finger probes
the shiny skin stretched
like burnt umber smeared
along his sharp...
