Love & Danger
The bare garden in spring always feels like a stranger’s. Like the last sentence in a book. Its path circles ground I have tended each season of my life. Have I only dreamed that I know how things grow? Then the dreams… Read more →
Paula Cisewski
Paula Cisewski's fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won Diode Editions' Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Press), Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Cisewski lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches both academically and privately.
Is this Victory?
It feels like whoever lives here never moved in. Like a bare bulb switched on in a vacant back room. Like a portrait of a stranger hung on an otherwise blank box of walls. We all live some days like a body with no head and others like a head with no body. Where do… Read more →