Editors’ Choice: Adriana Páramo

Oil Spills Remind Me of Him The moment we walked into a trendy club in the upper-class party strip in Bogotá, the women stopped talking. Their heads turned in our direction and their smiles got silly flirty. He smiled back, did this thing with his spiked-up hair, winked with a slow flutter of his eyelashes [...]

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A Meeting of Wills

An Interview with William Giraldi By William Mercier Jr. I was given the amazing opportunity to interview William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters, a novel that came out at the end of this past summer.  Giraldi was here almost exactly a year ago.  In this interview, I get to talk with him about family, reading, [...]

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Interviews with Maura

Christopher Anderson is an assistant professor of writing and literature at Chester College of New England. He recently read from his new memoir, The Bookstore, as part of the department’s Visiting Writer Series. Click here to listen to the reading, which also features Chester College junior Stephen Wicks as the opener. Maura Keaney: Has working [...]

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Poet Barbara Louise Ungar to Visit Chester College Oct. 24

Barbara Louise Ungar will visit Chester College of New England Monday, October 24 as part of the Department of Writing and Literature’s Visiting Writers Series. She will lead a workshop and discussion with students at 2:30 p.m. and then give a reading of her work at 6 p.m. Both events will be held in Powers [...]

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Chester College Visiting Writers Series Features Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson will be the feature reader in the Fall Visiting Writers Series at Chester College of New England this week. Stephen Wicks, a junior creative writing major at the college will open the event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, in Powers 29. An assistant professor of writing and literature, Anderson joined the Chester College faculty [...]

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Nick Flynn to Kick Off Chester College Visiting Artist Symposium

On Tuesday, September 13, Nick Flynn will visit Chester College of New England as part of this fall’s Visiting Artists Symposium and Visiting Writers. The Village Voice once said that, “Flynn’s authentic voice…holds us rapt, keeping both the tragic and the redemptive possibilities open.” And the San Francisco Chronicle said, “If the battered genre of [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Fred Yannantuono

Emerging Poet So the shithead stays up drinking all night since he thinks he’s Dylan Thomas, and he’s so drunk he can’t begin to read, and now he wants to be backlit. He doesn’t even wait for that, but, turning his back on the audience, begins to bleat how sad he is, how gay he [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Corey Ginsberg

My Quarterlife Crisis I can’t decide what the worst part about my job is. Maybe it’s cleaning the caked, orange urine stains from the inside of the Fabi’s toilet bowl rim. Maybe it’s being hungover from drinking cheap vodka out of a You’re #1 mug alone in my apartment last night while I ignored term [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Bryan Estes

Love is Nothing Like a Rose except that it seems like a good idea at the time, when the back yard is dead and gray, to step out of the dim kitchen into the cold rain, to claw at some mud and bury a few mangled bulbs among the worms, having trivialized (again)   the [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Susan Calvillo

His Secret Garden Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells And marigolds all in a row. the boy had been trying to pluck me out from underneath the bed, where I hid and refused him he came daily and poked his head down to stare at me [...]

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