The Provider by Anne C. English
Green was the name of the man from the bank that took my house. He angled his body toward the door the whole time he sat in my home, both legs turned and twisted to the side, feet pointed…
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Details from… by Maria Kenny
Kay folded her arms and looked across the table at her husband. The young woman peeled potatoes at the sink. Kay had told Sarah there was to be no home help, she could mind her own husband. “I like…
New Books: April 2019
Here’s a look at some of the April releases CRAFT can’t wait to read. Happy pub day to one and all! Jennifer Acker, The Limits of the World “The Limits of the World is a riveting and nuanced study of how we…
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia
It takes forty-five minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark. Wendy repeated her husband Chris’s instruction in her head. It was something he’d say stargazing in the Sonoran Desert with their daughter, Emma, back when they would…
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia: Part 4
The drone pilot was a pudgy bald man around Wendy’s age who patiently explained to them the logistics of the evening. They stood around a plastic folding table covered in computers and wires and watched a video of the…
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia: Part 3
Donald Judd created the structures at Chinati Foundation to outlast him, the bespectacled tour guide told them, he was obsessed with permanence. She spoke with profound reverence for the work, a priest sermonizing, as she led them through arid…
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia: Part 2
Dead Horse Saloon was a tourist’s dive bar. Whoever had designed it had done so by focus group, ticking off all the boxes. Neon beer signs, check. A jukebox playing Hank Williams, check. Dark varnished wood everywhere, check. Dartboard,…
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia: Part 1
It takes forty-five minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark. Wendy repeated her husband Chris’s instruction in her head. It was something he’d say stargazing in the Sonoran Desert with their daughter, Emma, back when they would…
CRAFT @ AWP19 in PDX
Please stop by and visit our booth at AWP 2019 in Portland! Booth: 1056 Alongside The Masters Review & Frontier Poetry & Palette Poetry Meet editors & readers, win Powell’s gift cards, recharge with donuts Please keep up with us on Twitter @CraftLiterary and check…
Joke-Telling in Lorrie Moore’s “You’re Ugly, Too”
By Kate Kaplan • People tell jokes to attract attention or deflect it, to express a point of view, to connect, to offend, or in the hope of shared laughter. Some people (disclosure: me) tell jokes to themselves, rehearsing…