The poetic sequence “Glass Armonica” developed out of my research into historical notions of hysteria and the treatments administered by doctors (including ovariectomy, pelvic massage, and vaginally-inserted devices used to produce “hysterical paroxysm”).

List of all I can recall: his hair,
red and curly; I was ten; how I slept

Nature writing: What is it? Whose is it?

In Andrew Cuomo‘s recent State of the State speech, the New York Governor broke with his past routine and what has been the routine for much of the national rhetoric for the last half a decade.

My experience reading the book was such that it’s hard to know where to start—with the elegant unraveling of sentences, the daring scope that encompasses the intimate and universal, the precision of description.

So to Speak is pleased to open the reading period for our Fall 2013 issue!