Date: July 23, 2012
"I'm O.K., you tell them, but with each passing week the depression deepens. You try to describe it. Like someone flew a plane into your soul. Like someone flew two planes into your soul."
preview | full record— Díaz, Junot (b. 1968)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.
Date: February 15, 2013
"We become a nation of survivalists, alone in the bunkers of our mind, with nothing but empty static on the radio."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: February 28, 2014
"A memory palace assembled ad hoc from brownstone apartments, underground caves and submarine compartments, or a diligently designed, continuously flowing and elegant old Alpine resort?"
preview | full record— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)
Date: May 7, 2014
"For a long time I locked the memories away in a room in my mind. I would sometimes touch the door, to make sure it was secure. It was always cold and whenever I opened it to toss in another memory, a biting wind would come roaring out. A wind that stank of diesel fuel, spent gunpowder, sand and ...
preview | full record— Armeni, Damon T.
Date: May 7, 2014
"Soon I hope to be able to venture down into those dark corners of my mind on purpose."
preview | full record— Armeni, Damon T.
Date: June 3, 2014
"It was the first time the idea had skulked out of the darkest, most anxious corners of my mind."
preview | full record— Brooks, Kim
Date: 2014
"DeYoung rummaged through his mental attic to figure out why."
preview | full record— Blake, John
Date: 2014
"You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)