Charles Harper Webb’s latest book, Brain Camp, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2015. A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, a book of essays on contemporary American poetry, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2016. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb teaches Creative Writing at California State […]
Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb: How About Cramps and Bloating
—Woman on a TV commercial Sometimes, as I raced the bases after dinner, Mom’s pot roast and chocolate pie would join hands to wring my guts. Once a cramp seized me halfway across Green Lake, my anaconda-bowels straining to drag me down. Charlie-horsed sixty feet deep, I pulled back on my Scuba fin till […]
Charles Harper Webb: How About Cramps and Bloating
—Woman on a TV commercial Sometimes, as I raced the bases after dinner, Mom’s pot roast and chocolate pie would join hands to wring my guts. Once a cramp seized me halfway across Green Lake, my anaconda-bowels straining to drag me down. Charlie-horsed sixty feet deep, I pulled back on my Scuba fin till […]
Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb’s latest book, Brain Camp, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2015. A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, a book of essays on contemporary American poetry, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2016. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb teaches Creative Writing at California State […]
Charles Harper Webb: Us and Them
The same old story: We’re the grass, and they’re the feet. We’re hors d’oeuvres, and they are teeth. We stand in a worshipful line outside the Hall as they file past in yellow rain- slickers, giggling like naughty kids. We know our place by how many of them speak to us, how long. We find […]
Charles Harper Webb: Why We’re Apart
“We were drawing energy from strange people around us. Strange words and numbers, bad contacts. We had to step away from that.” —Pop star Prince on the annulment of his marriage Each time I took her anywhere, a man wearing a watermelon, or a woman made of flashlights and electric toothbrushes was sure to hip-hop […]