On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege

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New Poetry by Carolyn Forché “On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” It is a time of being sorted by skin and hair, by mother tongue,as being from here or there, as pepper spray fills in the airuntil the whole city stinks of it, and the men who arrived in rented carswith out-of-state […]


“The Iceberg in My Living Room” ‹

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“Sleep, little boy of mine,sleep, I’ll watch over you;may God give you good luckin this world so untrue.”—Traditional Andalusian Lullaby* Article continues after advertisement The doctor is reciting the list; it sounds like a song. Citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline, duloxetine, venlafaxine, amitriptyline, imipramine, nortriptyline, alprazolam, chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, lorazepam, buspirone, isocarboxazid, phenelzine, selegiline, tranylcypromine. […]