George Rawlins has a BA from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. He has recent publications in Chiron Review, The Common, Illuminations, New World Writing, Nine Mile, Plainsongs, and Slant. His poetry collection Cheapside Afterlife, published by Longleaf Press in December 2021, will be reissued in an expanded edition in 2024.
Leave Beatrice to her minivan and casseroles. Forget lost loves, lose the interminable brooding and listen to this electric genius of angst reverse the negative capability curve of La belle dame sans merci, watch it knock out a reality script for The Faerie Queene faster than you can regret the love note penned at midnight to the last well-read beauty…. Read more →
Gregor’s mother, up all night, threatens to strangle herself with a headscarf if he won’t stop with the schnapps, and get back (Organ music rises) to work at the shoe factory. Grete, little sister, weeps in a corner. Unsteady on a three-legged stool, she pokes a pencil at her yellow-eyed distempered cat, Proserpina. Gregor shuts himself in, drowning in the… Read more →