My job was once threatened if I published a poem. I lived in another place but in America and knew my rights. I let the poem wait. Oh, I read it aloud once and silence swelled in the room like fog; then someone said, read it again. My job was once threatened if I …
Tag: Linda Sillitoe
In Memoriam: Linda Sillitoe
A Tribute to Linda Sillitoe by Levi S. Peterson Levi S. Peterson is a former editor of Dialogue and author of novels The Backslider and Aspen Marooney, short-story collections Canyons of Grace and Night Soil, and autobiography A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning. He lives in Washington with his wife Althea. The …
Poem: In Riverdale
We returned to our beginnings in August, with its crayola green trees and grass, blue sky, and yellow light so certainly imposed that desert light and night and hues wavered within us. We settled near the mountains, opening our windows to crickets wooing a canyon breeze. We tried to believe we can fit this …