Unlearning Dad, poems by David Graham. Live Encounters Poetry & Writing February 2025.

“The president, offering no evidence, insisted upon his version of the story.” “The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established ...

In his newest book Death Prefers the Minor Keys, Sean Thomas Dougherty says, “I have no memories that are not partly fiction.” It’s the first line of a poem called “Poem as Pedagogy or Prose Poem that...

For Sean Thomas Dougherty   This year there were no parties.  Our friends Were sick with flu or busy caring For family sick with flu, but we’d Still stayed up late talking and drinking Prosecc…

David Graham’s most recent book is The Honey of Earth (Terrapin Books 2019). Others include Stutter Monk and Second Wind. He also co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns (with Tom Montag) an…

Each morning she goes out with an armful of boards and hammers them into the ice.

“I really wish people / would dance at receptions.”

Martha Silano v9.1

I have been failing for years to write a poem about dying. This isn’t true. I’m still lying about suicides. I haven’t said anything. Omissions are blessings that catch up to you eventually. Van...