Lafayette, Colorado People who live here speak very little French. Lafayette, nous voilà! they sometimes say. Although Lafayette, famous Hero of Two Worlds, (our world et le monde de Lafayette) never skied much past the bunny slope and few remember him slip- ping bourbon in cocoa after snowboarding— in fact, few remember him at all—it’s […]
Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton: West Ho 2
I also live in the state of New Mexico, the second sunniest state, and in Florida, the eighth. I live in three places but I don’t have three faces. This is not exactly a metaphor, yet I can see the metaphor coming at me, a satellite in the hard dark sky. Deputy Azevedo placed Dexter’s […]
Maureen Seaton: West Ho
Colorado ties with Texas for 6th sunniest state in the USA. Who cares? The sun’s not racing against itself, why should it? I will not be buried in Elizabethport nor one of the Oranges like the rest of my clan. My body will not be flown home in a crate to be clucked over by […]
Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton has authored numerous poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most recently, with Denise Duhamel, Caprice: Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her awards include the Iowa Poetry Prize, Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and an NEA Fellowship. Her work has […]
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Olive Oyl Cento
her toes are not the lobes of autobiography (An ingrown toenail?) that is, a history (An ingrown toenail?) like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime this: the flooding into the flooding and shriek! shriek! God must have a big eye to see everything that is, a history A shipwreck in Haven a shape made of links, elongated […]
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Interview with a Comic Strip Diva
We sat down with Olive Oyl at her home in Chester, Illinois. We were struck by the graceful reserve with which she served us herbal tea, her quiet yet sparkling generosity. MS: Ms. Oyl, you’ve been called the skinniest thing in boots. Do you find this interferes with your self-esteem? OO: Did you ask General […]