by McKenzie | Jul 6, 2013 | Poetry Collections, Reviews
Admittedly, whenever I sit down to read “one of the greats” for the first time, my inner-skeptic finds her way out and asks, “What’s with all the hype?” I ask this question not for the sake of propelling myself forward, or of devaluing late-writers, but for the...
by McKenzie | Jul 6, 2013 | Reading
IN A BOAT SHED I waited too long. I waited for you forever and ever: the changing unchanging restlessness of the signs they didn’t put up or down; the boxes of oranges, rat poisons, barns, a sled with no runners, snow, refreshments, pineapples; the odor...