Divorce. The rate in the US, by some estimates, is 50 percent, but it seems like more. I mean, Al Gore and Tipper. Not to mention Deb and Gary, your high school friend’s really cool parents. And Gwyneth Paltrow and that guy from Coldplay? If they can’t make it, who can? As Louis C. K. says, …
Christa Romanosky and Jennifer Murvin are having a literary party, and you’re invited. Sit down with a glass of wine or beer or ginger ale (just drink something, even if it’s morning) and listen in on the conversation in another edition of Pas de Deux, a two-part exchange between contributors. This time, Romanosky is slinging the …
The feast continues with the second course in our feature Pas de Deux, in which Jennifer Murvin turns the tables on fellow 10.2 contributor Christa Romanosky and asks how in the heck she came up with her ironic, biting, and heartbreaking story “Assets.” In what follows, Romanosky reveals her secret recipe: one part biography, eight …
We just received our lovely copy of contributor Dawn Lonsinger’s Whelm, which won the Idaho Prize for Poetry Prize in 2012 (selected by Nance Van Winckel). Dawn writes that “Whelm is part wildness and part witness, part love song and part lament, an elegy to former times and selves that admits fear of a future where humanity, …
We’ve received some delightful news from contributor Katherine Bode-Lang, who just learned her poetry manuscript “The Reformation” has been awarded the 2014 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. All three of the poems published in our pages are included in the collection, which will be available for purchase in September. The selection was made by Stephen Dunn. …
The Bad: Paper cuts. Unwieldy tape guns. Sitting on the floor criss-cross applesauce for hours on end. Rapid-onset carpal tunnel. The Good: Subscribers can look for CR 10.2 to magically appear via the still sprightly and efficient United States Postal Service. The Wonderful: This issue kicks off our tenth-anniversary year and features the printed score …
As Harold Bloom contends, most poets, whether they admit it or not, struggle to surpass their influences. Wordsworth arm-wrestles Milton for The Prelude. Stevens posits a secular vision of the sublime to rival Dante’s devout cosmology. And part of Shakespeare, however deep and dark, envies Ingram Frizer for stabbing Kit Marlowe in the face. Four …
A bit of news related to our developing interest in words and music. (Look for our first art-song feature in our November issue, coming soon!) Kevin Simmonds, whose poems appeared in 9.2 and will also appear in 11.1 (spring/summer 2014), is the composer of a musical piece being performed this weekend and next in San Francisco. …
Coming of age is difficult, as any awkward teen will tell you. Your body is raging with hormones, creating sweaty palms, cracked voices, and terrible decisions. You have crushing responsibilities like taking out trash and cleaning your room. You’re supposed to find yourself (and you may be looking your whole life). You are vulnerable to …
You know how when you’re not sure what to order for lunch you throw a dart at the menu? No? Really? Just us? Okay, then you know when you aren’t sure how to stop your mother-in-law from buying you t-shirts with cute critters on them (because six is enough) you send a letter to Ann …
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