Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Playing the Husband by Emari DiGorgio When you were the husband, you kissed up my back, lips cresting each ridge of spine. When I was the husband, I traced your name—the only poem I knew— with pointer finger, then tongue, in the small frame your shoulder blades made. When you were the husband, I lay flat on my back and closed my eyes. ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Excerpt from Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. 1 from Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald Lately I have taken to reading poems to dead boys in the Benevolence Baptist Cemetery. They don't walk away before I have finished the first sentence, like most of the live boys I know. When I read to them, their eyes don't wander to something, or someone, more interesting. I can pretend these ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. from The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci The night my sister went missing, I sat in a back corridor of the police station, staring at a tinted glass window to an inner room. The lights were off in there, and so the window looked like a black screen. I remember how my insides felt as blank as that window. It’s a good thing, that ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Two Poems by Gregory Pardlo
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Double Dutch by Gregory Pardlo The girls turning double-dutch bob & weave like boxers pulling punches, shadowing each other, sparring across the slack cord casting parabolas in the air. They whip quick as an infant’s pulse and the jumper, before she enters the winking, nods in time as if she has a notion to share, waiting her chance ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2018: The Story Behind Groundhog Gets A Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. The Story Behind Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow A few years ago, I was ill and in a hospital, when a curious thought came to me. It was that I should postpone finishing the humorous fiction book that I’d been writing and begin work on a non-fiction book about groundhogs. I fully expected this odd idea to go away in a few ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2018: A Personal Essay by Anndee Hochman
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Long-Distance Call by Anndee Hochman My cell phone doesn't ring that often. Especially not at 7:40 a.m. So when the phone—parked near my feet on the coffee table while I nestled on the couch with my laptop—began to buzz one recent morning, I had to look. The caller ID said "Dad." That would have been odd under any circumstance. My father ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2018: Two Poems by Peter E. Murphy
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Watching The Crucible in the Time of Trump at Theatr Newydd, Cardiff by Peter E. Murphy First of all, everyone is terrified. Is she going to fly again? I hear she flies. The word “lies” lies inside of flies, inside of families. A clink of good women are shackled together, away from their families because of lies. No president in ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: The Thrall’s Tale by Judith Lindbergh
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Jamie Walters that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. from The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh Einar owns me, the runes at my collarbone speak from the carved stone, smooth with wear. The amulet belonged to another before me, another thrall whose name is lost. They don’t remember even how she died, only that she did about the time that I was born. At my birth I was named for the fire burning ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: Two Poems by Renée Ashley
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Salt to Make a Sea by Renée Ashley I cannot hold such emptiness —the only meaning, the meaning we make & the way time tugs the body down, the body named bone, named brain, the color of dust & tremor, the soft meat & the bag it lives in. We beg from the body; it shivers & spits—we settle ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: Excerpt by Michelle Cameron
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Jamie Walters that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Excerpt from Chapter 21 The Fruit of Her Hands by Michelle Cameron Inch by inch, I slowly moved up to the pyre. The guards were still unloading the carts, piling the books in one enormous mound, cursing as the mountain grew higher and as books tossed on the top tumbled off and had to be restacked. Looking around, I saw the boys were right. ... Read More...
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