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- 1From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTonight, drinking Drum Mountain White Cloud tea, I feel the night air press into me. Rereading your poems, Wendell Berry, I am reminded that you published in Monks Pond. The world of the giving and the hurt ascend...
- 2From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWho can answer truly about a given moment, "What do you feel?" The meaning of things is the meaning of our experience of things. It's all we know, and all we can know. If meaning eludes us it is because we do not pay...
- 3From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed~Italy, 2006; United States, 2020 The saints vocal cords and tongue and lower jaw were on view in an area called the Chapel of Relics; further on was his black tomb circled with flowers. What shocked me was the tomb...
- 4From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy mother sleeps in a tiny twin bed ever since my father died. The small black dog she never lets out lies in his piss with her. Holy crap, you think, (the reek of it) but she pulls on her sandals, feet bare, doesn't...
- 5From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI'm told, eases the mind, centers the heart. So today when the car whacked that pothole and flattened the tire, I practiced. How grateful to be jerked, effortlessly, jaw flung askew, shoulders rattled, the car sinking...
- 6From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere is a welter of bees in my throat, reminding me that the heat of this woodstove is a stinging turn of seasons. Of course-- as my friend Gene said--time is wider than it is long. Still, how does each Christmas snow...
- 7From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedis no way to live but we all sometimes get caught there tangled up in its ropes and wires like kayaks in open water blown so far off course we no longer know which way to turn where true north is or the way back we're...
- 8From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen addressing Ted Kooser's career, no critic seems to overlook the fact that Kooser is a popular poet whose work is accessible enough to reach both a nonliterary public and seasoned readers of literature. His poems...
- 9From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Emmett Memorial Award and the Emmett Memorial Lecture are sponsored by the Emmett family, the PSU English Department, and The Midwest Quarterly. The award and lecture are named in memory of the late Dr. Victor J....
- 10From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Stephen Meats Poetry Prize will be awarded once each year, starting in 2017. The prize is named for poet and Professor of English Stephen E. Meats in recognition of his service as Poetry Editor of the journal from...
- 11From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis is how it was. People isolated in cars, waiting along highways for whatever's left at the food bank. People who never asked anyone for anything, on hold waiting clogged telephone lines, their calls to unemployment...
- 12From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBear with me. I have something that I think may be important to say, for those interested in creative writing issues at least, but it may take me a while to get there. Why? Because I can hardly bear to think about the...
- 13From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe professor held up a blank white page, pinching the top edge at the middle. I didn't think of it as "portrait" page-orientation as I might now, nor even more simply as vertical; I identified it as typewriter ready and...
- 14From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedwomen live longer because waiting for the men who raped us to die can take a long time meanwhile we sew, crochet, embroider, knit duct tape ourselves back together enough to write the letters, poems, stories that...
- 15From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed7 a. m. and it surprises me how I still wake overcome with the need to touch you. How it wells up inside the way the sun wells up in my windows, sends me crawling across the bed to soak up any warmth you've left behind....
- 16From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBut their illnesses are real. Bruegel gives us clues: one's leukoma (white opaqueness of the cornea), looks like an old-time camera's popped flashcube-- there's a cloud inside each eye, and it can't be used: he's fourth...
- 17From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRocks pretend they're not alive especially to humans who don't appreciate their metabolism....
- 18From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy cousin emails a picture of New Zealand's Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano, a blue puddle in a pile of snow, and it's mesmerizing. He's there skiing in July, hot enough to melt his boots when steam...
- 19From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe gaze, as a visual act, generates modes of power, domination, and control. It has the ability to categorize people, generate feelings of shame, and assert one's superiority. The gaze of the superior and privileged...