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Books & Poetry
GOING VICTORIAN
A Taste for Trollope
The sometimes overlooked 19th-century British author inspires a Truro group
Scheming politicians, female agency, marital bargains, and ambitious sociopaths were all up for discussion at a recent meeting in Truro. This was not a select board hearing, however. It was […]
WRITERS
Adeniyi Ademoroti’s Characters Are Their Own Worst Enemies
A writer’s subconscious helps him find the voice he wants
When Adeniyi Ademoroti sits down to write a story, there are always two things in his head: the first sentence and the final scene. “If I don’t have anything I’m […]
WRITERS
Grand Stories Told From the Periphery of Loss
In Grace Chao’s worlds, a single event can change the trajectory of a life
Something goes terribly wrong for one family in Grace Chao’s short story “Family Travel.” A train hits a couple’s small blue car — stopped on the train tracks going from […]
POETRY
Hopkins’ Tempests
I was living off turtles, birds, mollusks, and wild pigs and wanted to live on the Isle of Devils forever. The Governor sentenced me to death when I tried mutiny. […]
IN FELLOWSHIP
A Story of Your Leaving
The poet J.J. Starr-McClain observes what remains in absence
J.J. Starr-McClain is a fifth-generation Chicagoan whose ’90s childhood was split between city and suburb, father and mother, steel and sky. In life and in her poetry, she still tends […]
SPIRALS
A Poet’s Prose
Lindsay Miles is using her FAWC fellowship to write outside her comfort zone
Lindsay Miles, one of this winter’s Fine Arts Work Center fellows, doesn’t feel comfortable calling herself a writer. “I think I’ll be 80 and I’ll still be unsure of the […]
TRAGIC LITTLE SOBS
The Internal Contradictions of Avigayl Sharp
A FAWC fiction fellow navigates between the real and the absurd
A wave of doubt rolls through fiction writer Avigayl Sharp moments before she meets the page. “Writing is scary for me because I go in with absolutely nothing,” she says. […]
BOOKS
Robert Jay Lifton: Connoisseur of Hope
In his 13th book, the celebrated psychiatrist forges meaning from catastrophe
Karl Marx famously said, “The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it.” But what if interpreting the world is precisely […]
POETRY
After This
When I die You shall set me free For I would like to be clover. Deep-rooted clover with a few lucky leaves And small white flowers That pop up overnight […]
POETRY
A Stranding
Before Dürer, dragons existed; after him, they did not. —Philip Hoare Two mola mola washed ashore last night during a full […]
POETRY
Cape Strata
How many people pass this place … every day and never see it! Once it is seen, painted, and put into a frame everyone will come to look at it. […]
BOOKS
Nick Flynn Searches for Lost Time
In Low, penetrating lyrics explore avenues of collaboration
Nick Flynn’s Low, his sixth volume of poems, is perfectly tuned to winter’s meditative months. Published in November by Graywolf Press, the collection consists of poems of varying lengths that […]
REMINISCENCE
Seeing Past the New Sidewalk
Our Writers Group recreates the old Provincetown every Tuesday
PROVINCETOWN — Dogs named Riches and Poverty. Ice houses. The time the harbor almost froze over. Kids sliding at night in midwinter. Dune skiing with cheap skis. Fires on the […]
POETRY
Muscle Memory
Neil Silberblatt lives in Dennis Port and is the founder and director of Voices of Poetry. His most recent collection, Past Imperfect, was nominated for the Mass. Book Award in […]
