Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
The One Night The Dog Was Good written and read by Nance Van Winckel
Nance Van Winckel s most recent collection of poems, which won the Pacific Coast Poetry Award, is
Our Foreigner (Beyond Baroque Books, 2016). Other collections of poems include
Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2013),
No Starling (U. of Washington Press, 2007),
Beside Ourselves (Miami U. Press, 2000),
After a Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998),
The Dirt(Miami U. Press, 1994), and
Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois, 1988).
Ever Yrs, a novel in the form of a scrapbook (Twisted Road Publications, 2014) and
Boneland: Linked Stories (U. of Oklahoma Press, 2013). Other books of fiction include
Nance Van Winckel reads Reader, I by Corey Van Landingham spokanepublicradio.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spokanepublicradio.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.