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“Lot’s Lament” & “Elegy in Broken Stanzas”
“Because I could not see what she saw, / I invented the burning city that gives no heat, / I planted the pillar of salt that is no resource, / And now, as their shadows wave at my feet, / I imagine the horrified look she gave / And salvage her look that has turned from me.”
Commentary on the Gospel of John
“Someone I barely knew messaged to say he was living out of his car and did I want his rats.”
For the Enjoyment, the Sentences, the Fear, the Laughter, the Grace
Having read, last year, with a certain stringent intensity, I tried to be more omnivorous and relaxed about my choices in 2019. Perhaps because of this, I’m not sure which books were the best.
Short-form interview with Christopher X. Shade, author of “The Good Mother of Marseille”
I think a lot about snow globes. We did not have snow globes in small town Alabama where I was raised. I’m fascinated by them probably because they were not in my childhood. The contained experience of a snow globe, when you pick it up and shake it…
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The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.