Wearing your problems like a new pair of shoes

[sovay]

My poem "The Process" is now online at Mithila Review. I would love to say that it was inspired by the current political climate, but it was written the week before the election and I knew next to nothing about Franz Kafka biographically except for the famous points—Jewish, Prague, TB—and Dora Diamant. I have since read Nicholas Murray's Kafka: A Biography (2004) and Klaus Wagenbach's Kafka's Prague: A Travel Reader (trans. Shaun Whiteside, 1996) and so I know now that he hated the telephone and had nothing against typewriters, but that is not the point of this poem.

The market is a new one for me and I am delighted to have my work in the company of Cixin Liu, Martin Šust, Carlos Hernandez, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Gwendolyn Kiste, Mari Ness, Priya Sharma, and many others. The cover art by Archan Nair is also pretty great.

First published poem of 2017, no complaints.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The cover art is fabulous, and that's a great lineup--and a great poem.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased this one found a home so quickly, given the strong reaction people had to it at your reading.

I hope it's not a prediction.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :)

[gwynnega]

What beautiful cover art, and the issue looks to be full of great stuff. That is an excellent Kafka poem.