This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Don't Do That by Stephen Dunn It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red along with some resentment I’d held in for a few weeks, which was not helped by the sight of little nameless things pierced with toothpicks on the tables, or by talk that promised to be nothing if not small. But I’d consented to come, and I knew what part of the house their ... Read More...

This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   The Star-Ledger by BJ Ward 287 was the long road to the newspaper plant      my black-handed father would ride beneath the weight of a night sky.      A father who works the night shift knows that weight, how it accumulates from within      when his mistakes and debt begin to press on his children and ... Read More...

This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   Doorknobs by Lois Marie Harrod Someday one will turn and slip—hot and heavy         from your hand and you will hear         its twin clunk on the other side of the bedroom and there will be the door between the two of you,         as it has been, apparently, before   ... Read More...