That’s what it’s like to wake up and see your face each morning.

For how many years have I kept up the lie, the story
of the middle-aged man in the cap and the gray
or possibly bluish sweatshirt
gaining on me in the night, wrenching

For our series Making of a Poem, Natalie Shapero talks about her issue no. 257 poem, “The Top of Hell.”

Gary Indiana’s Art of Fiction, unlocked from the archive by Natalie Shapero.

Natalie Shapero reads a poem that provides a taxonomy of disaster.