REVIEW: THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE BY NICOLE SEALEY (KNOPF)
September 5, 2023
“Sealey highlights the potential violence beneath the interaction with deft efficiency.” – Ronnie K. Stephens
Ferguson
REVIEW: PACING IN MY CELL – ERIC KING (RADICAL PAPER PRESS)
July 5, 2019
What do you do when you have a sentence where the same 10 years acts as the minimum and maximum? When there is no light? A spoonful of food? Pepper sprayed and left without water for weeks? You pace in your cell.
THE POWER OF POETRY #6: “A POND, A STICK” – DIANE SEUSS
June 12, 2015
A Pond, a Stick I just finished grading final portfolios for two of my poetry courses, here at the tail end of the academic year when teachers feel foul, ragged, bone-tired, and heartbroken. I have found myself wondering if poetry is in a losing battle with Kim Kardashian’s ass