"Paideia" by J.L. Moultrie

At Hobart, J.L. Moultrie experiences homelessness and more.

Morrison and Robbins

The novelist-in-residence at L.U.S.K. has been reading The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison and Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins.

rare titles

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I've been working ever since I was twelve.

"'I was eleven or twelve. I remember when the taxicab driver brought that telegram.'

"'I need details,' I said hoping to coax him into a deeper story, something better than my imagination. 'Was it a weekend? Were you coming home from school? Were you watching cartoons? Was your mother at work?'

"'I think I was at work.' He laughed. 'I've been working ever since I was twelve. I had a job changing tires.'

"'You were pretty much taking care of the family while he was gone?'

"'Yeah, my great-uncle got me a job changing tires.'"

~~ from To Float in the Space Between by Terrance Hayes

write a novel in the voice of Mark Twain's Jim

"[Saul] Bellow went on to say something I like to propose to folks put off by political poems: 'I could write a better book from Lolita's point of view.' (Oh, if only Bellow had written that book!) Write a poem from [the Black tennis star's] point of view. Write a poem, write a novel in the voice of Mark Twain's Jim. Or in the voice of one of Charles Bukowski's girlfriends."

~~ from To Float in the Space Between by Terrance Hayes

A Reminder by Sam Redlark

I'm scheduled to receive A Reminder by Sam Redlark later this week. It's the first chapbook from serious-lit press and online journal.