Blog
Gravity
| April 24, 2023 My two-month-old wiggles on his tummy on a brightly striped blanket in our little urban backyard, trying to hold his head high while the weight of his rapidly growing brain pulls him to the ground. He is suspended in tension.
Shadow in the Wrack
| April 17, 2023 The morning I found a loon curled in seaweed, breast picked clean, bones laced with foam from the outgoing tide...
Sarah Capdeville Wins River Teeth's 2022 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize
| April 14, 2023 We are delighted to announce that Sarah Capdeville has won the 2022 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. Her manuscript, Aligning the Glacier's Ghost, will be published by the University of New Mexico Press in spring 2024.
Keywords: book prize, literary nonfiction
Breadcrumbs
| April 10, 2023 Slim chance the surgeon gives, but like a tiny bird, I look for crumbs. Nurses flit in, check the PICC line, IV tubing. My mother’s a sleeping marionette, strings at rest.
Choose Your Own Adventure. Two Books or Two Books in One?
| April 7, 2023 In Moscow, where I taught English in 2001, Americans were rare. This meant we enjoyed a certain celebrity. I was often the first American my students met. At least, that’s what they told me. But not Yulia. I was Yulia’s second American.
Keywords: book review
We Call Up Danger Only to Send It Away
| April 3, 2023 He lit a Marlboro and exhaled, smiling down at the gators indulgently, as if each one was his precious, deadly baby. He looked the same way at me, sometimes.
