FROM ERROR TO ERROR: on DYSGRAPHIA
My relationship to language is an overdetermined, tangled mess: the end result of unequal parts-learning disability, educational deficiency, and self-stylized coping mechanisms. Although I write through it everyday, I’d never considered writing about it until late in the summer of 2007. The novelist Selah Saterstrom sent around an email asking friends to share a brief […]
The Love Language of Nathie Marbury: Celebrating Black Deaf Leaders
She stands proud with a smile that turns with every intentional twist of her wrists. The character at the center of her visual fairytale presentation, Sleeping Beauty is deceptively dramatic. At any given moment, Nathie Marbury offers unexpected moods and exciting delivery to children who will never forget the experience. They will not only learn […]
Vacation
The academic from Paris and the self-described “gypsy,” who had met at some kind of literary or maybe linguistics conference, ruined the car ride to the restaurant; they ruined the view of the beautiful hills; they ruined the cows and the word-one of my favorite words-suckle; they ruined the sunshine and the new Young Thug […]
Federica
On my first day in Italy, my host sister Federica and I walked together by the Po. We walked down the white stone quays. Orange enamel streetcars slid over the arched bridge and vanished into the cypress-heavy hillside. Boys in long boats dipped their oars. We walked up the stairway and into the Vittorio square. […]
Want Not
No matter how I try my hair won’t grow back. The power’s gone out, someone saw wires arcing down the block. We find a lantern in the garage that still casts enough light. The time is never right but this is probably not the time to say it. Something’s burning in the house, […]
An Introduction to The Fence Portfolio of Writing by Professional Nurses
Fence 39 has coalesced during the 21st century’s first pandemic, a globalinflection point – or ongoing duration – from which we must all pivot. No matter the scope of the task before us, we ask ourselves how do we do this, now? How can we do this now? And the fuzzy and foggy shape of […]
White Rainbow
The army held the baby in chains. It broke free. It was quite easy. At 158 feet high, it towered over the army and its tanks. It tore the metal wrapped around its wrists and legs with its eight baby teeth. The baby wobbled toward the freight train yard, as it liked trains, liked the […]
The Bureau of Hards
One year at summer camp, I met a girl who told me about all the different things she’d managed to send, unpackaged, through the US Postal Service. I sorely wish I remembered her litany of unexpected items. The one thing I do recall is that she had once addressed a shoe, a Converse All-Star, she […]
Welcome to Warehouse
Floorworker I thought: I like taking pictures. Facilitating the fulfillment of others’ image-making could be an honest way to make a decent living. It’s tangential to my interests at best, but at least I could feign interest, more so than at the interview with the editorial department of the luxury magazine with photo spreads devoted […]
