(originally appeared in Dead Mule)
She loves him as only a Christian womancan love a man; crucifies him with love,bears witness to love, kills him with devotion.She is called Jude. She singsJesus Loves Me with a power thatpromises He’d darn-sight better.
Her husband leaves at midnight.She turns in her bed, naked & warm,to hear him at [...]
Sven Birkerts, in one of his many books or essays—every one is worth your while, by the way; I’ve read them many times in some cases—makes a case that we haven’t really seen a representative literary novel (I’d expand this to other genres too) of the electronic age in the way we might have been [...]
Night Train is my main baby, let’s keep that straight. However much it’s ‘my’ journal, I feel constrained, by dint of the stories and poems we’ve published in the past, and our status as a non-profit combined with our incorporation as a quasi-educational institution, to a reasonable facsimile of what people expect to see. Else, [...]