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on the seawall a community gallery of new writing art and commentary hosted by ron slate skip to content on the seawall a community gallery of new writing art and commentary hosted by ron slate home commentary writing art contact submit your work about july august september 2026 edition featured commentary july 7 2026 on killing spree poems by jorie graham reviewed by jeffrey levine graham writes from within a world where catastrophe no longer announces itself as event and instead settles into the very medium through which perception itself must now pass literature in translation july 7 2026 the whisper of the wind a story by cástulo aceves translated from spanish by michael langdon they started in the middle of nowhere heading towards what she supposed was the closest highway the whole group began to walk with the last rays of the sun skirting the hills that could be seen in the distance very small on the horizon poetry july 7 2026 mother s day bad birds two poems by cleopatra mathis still i struggle to rise breathing in the quiet trying to believe in patience as i teach the child to make the bread to mix the flour and water commentary july 7 2026 on country of lords neo aristocrats social darwinists tech utopians and the long fight against equality in america by kim phillips fein reviewed by hamilton cain as this timely incisive book suggests liberty exists for the elect few the rest of us be damned a notion as american as mom and apple pie essay july 7 2026 criminal behavior an essay by gary fincke in the beginning the fatal beating is just a local news story a curiosity to follow terrible behavior reported in a newspaper circulated through small towns and rural communities within an hour s drive commentary july 7 2026 on even time bleeds selected poems by jeannette l clariond translated from the spanish introduced by forrest gander reviewed by matt reeck the poetry strips back the extra the social the trauma of living with people to try to get to a physical spiritual core that connects us across chronological time and to the physical world literature in translation july 7 2026 from the pure and the impure cross genre prose by colette translated from the french by rachel careau i am revealing a leniency that people will find strange that people will fault me for it s true that these two men whom i have just briefly depicted offered me the tangible expression of union and even of dignity a kind of austerity enveloped them interview july 7 2026 call every resource on muriel rukeyser in the twenty first century with catherine gander stefania heim interview conducted by claire farley there is an uncanniness to how chillingly rukeyser seems to anticipate aspects of our moment understanding the deep impacts of living in perpetual war her insight into the insidious interweaving of consumerism journalism and the war machine poetry july 7 2026 gold watch autumn two poems by miguel murphy a person is a grieving monster said aeschylus the past shapeless as muscle and expressed as a faceless mass it s crawling out to eat commentary july 7 2026 on new york trilogy poetry by peter balakian reviewed by matthew cooperman his work takes on the larger picture of historical formation human rights writ large and its accretive echo across time while also reveling in the very material culture that sustains it poetry july 7 2026 after a language is lost a poem by bertony lewis my tongue as if sitting on it two minutes of a day heavy enough to crush words coming out my mouth commentary july 7 2026 on exophony voyages outside the mother tongue essays by yoko tawada translated from the japanese by lisa hofmann kuroda reviewed by dorian stuber she urges all of us who live primarily in one language to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between and within languages commentary july 7 2026 on under the falls a novel by richard russo reviewed by mark athitakis under the falls is a thriller but at its best it s concerned about that matter of haunting about whether the child can ever be reconciled with the adult and who gets hurt along the way fiction july 7 2026 ecce homo flash fiction by josh ellenbogen she was nearing the end of book 72 in dio cassius his chronicle of ancient rome waiting on the line for which his book principally enjoys fame our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust when she heard a disturbance in the yard poetry july 7 2026 double negative a poem by nicholas pierce on my third night there i was out watering when my phone buzzed i thought you all should know the email began commentary july 7 2026 on my year in paris with gertrude stein a fiction by deborah levy reviewed by benjamin woodard the book which levy dubs a fiction rather than a novel functions as a brief journey through the titular writer s pioneering career as well as a slice of parisian life relishing in wordplay that draws from stein s bag of tricks poetry july 7 2026 epiphora if that s what it is an old man walking along a trail under an umbrella through heavy snow every soul smokes three poems by robert wrigley here s the nine mile cigarette john prine planned to light with a vodka and ginger ale when he arrived here we re on a heavenly balcony it s a starlit night commentary july 7 2026 on best literary translations 2026 edited by arthur sze reviewed by britta stromeyer what sets this anthology apart is its transparency and celebration of the translation process offering readers a window into the creative ethical and at times collaborative negotiations behind the english versions poetry july 7 2026 beginning the gingerbread man two poems by lee upton even what i didn t have was what i had i said that trying to believe myself when i say myself i mean us because those were days when we were never found literature in translation july 7 2026 the old age of narcissus fear prayer first communion four poems by enrique lihn translated from the spanish by jonathan cohen david unger from seeing myself so much in this cracked mirror i ve lost all sense of my face or from talking about it so much it s become infinite to me poetry july 7 2026 the scent from a cupboard a poem by erin belieu breathes out what you were were not myrrh the hanging music of smoke poetry july 7 2026 ghazal rinsed rice two poems by supritha rajan it takes an image to describe the feeling in another image which is to say once i tore brittle leaves and hid them in a book which is to say whatever once lurked within my honeycombed mind now evades its reach commentary july 7 2026 book notes nonfiction on dorothea tanning a surrealist world by alyce mahon diaries by josef koudelka the war that made the middle east by mustafa aksakal hyperpolitics by anton jäger reviewed by ron slate in 2004 at age 94 the painter and sculptor dorothea tanning published a table of content the first of her two poetry collections her poem sequestrienne begins don t look at me for answers what am i but a sobriquet a teeth grinder grinder of color and vanishing point commentary july 7 2026 on offseason a novel by avigayl sharp reviewed by tobias carroll this novel is often brutally sad it s also often brutally funny it s neither a comic novel or a tragedy instead it s something much stranger literature in translation july 7 2026 restanza an essay by emanuela anechoum translated from the italian by edoardo andreoni people my age like to wallow in nostalgia for the town in a romantic narrative of slow living of sunshine sea and wind i envy them i wish i could be more forgiving toward my hometown and toward myself too poetry july 7 2026 untitled found abecedarian your guide to total health care 1996 two poems by rachel aguirre we re in public academic coffee complete with neatly inked questions in my notebook he presses gold rimmed glasses closer essay july 7 2026 strange gatherings the nightworld of dream song 10 an essay by steven cramer if dream song 10 s dreaming henry stands for berryman dreaming then the song represents one of berryman s most agonized debates between his racist and his progressive instincts commentary july 7 2026 on the old fire a novel by elisa shua dusapin translated from the french by aneesa abbas higgins reviewed by angelica hankins a strain that runs through elisa shua dusapin s novels characters are let down quietly delicately the pain like a pinprick festering just below the surface poetry july 7 2026 intermezzo my mother and robert penn warren two poems by allison funk at the end of la bohème rudolpho gives mimi a muff to help keep her warm i thought of that as i held his hand it was midnight an hour until he let go of mine commentary july 7 2026 on the eighth wonder a novel by vlady kociancich translated from the spanish by jessica sequeira reviewed by cory oldweiler that kociancich should have produced such an intricately surreal novel is perhaps unsurprising given that her english literature professor was none other than jorge luis borges literature in translation july 7 2026 the gap between mountains the wheat is ripe boundless snow three poems by nianxi chen translated from the chinese by kuo zhang melisa cahnmann the sky rises higher every moment on top of our heads a tile blue hat adds to the weight of wanxi basin from all directions laborers learn its lessons and get more ignorant too essay july 7 2026 frank rosenblatt in passing the rebirth of the mimetic impulse an essay review by douglas penick now we recognize that what he explored and created are at the core of artificial intelligence a technology transforming communication research design and the nature of work poetry july 7 2026 the chalk pig a poem by norman lock where i was was pitch dark i was alone in it with a sound like a chirp or what a broken windowpane might make as its pieces fell slowly to the floor commentary july 7 2026 on a season poems by michael joseph walsh reviewed by michael collins we each experience our lives as seasons populated by foreigners within these poems offer a textual reflection of these processes across time poetry july 7 2026 a planet is a moment a poem by mary buchinger in the before is everything possible in the after even the nothing that s there is missed its absence remarkable commentary july 7 2026 on the butterfly who dreamt he was a man by boria sax reviewed by rin macritchie sax believes that insects lives render them especially suitable for comparison with human concepts and institutions he highlights insect metamorphoses as a model for human transformations literature in translation july 7 2026 no talk less i am tired three poems by ana lamela rey translated from the spanish by shilyh warren slowly yell at me so i can really hear you fully grasp what you say and determine who is in charge commentary july 7 2026 on all there is to lose poems by aiden heung reviewed by yuanrui xu heung s work touches upon the universal sorrow over the loss of an irretrievable past but individualizes that experience by focusing on the poet s own loss and pressuring it into something stranger an ethics of sacrifice 1 commentary july 7 2026 on can we laugh at that by jacques berlinerblau reviewed by douglas macleod the one who is laughing defines what is funny including comedy that is provocative or nasty but at what point does comedy become hate speech issuing from xenophobia misogyny bias or rage poetry july 7 2026 down by the humus lake a poem by kathryn rantala water worries the house posts sits on the steps moody made of murk eventually we approach the door the stairway down carrying our lights our tendency to drown poetry july 7 2026 the visible woman a poem by sheila wellehan her open palms faced out she looked like she was asking for mercy i stopped playing with the visible woman when she started reminding me of jesus christ on his crucifix poetry july 7 2026 invisible window i window ii three poems by maya bernstein if i were in a painting if you were to turn that painting upside down i d fall from water into sky what would you see a blur of blue fiction july 7 2026 thinker second chances microfiction by cheryl snell she told her husband that she was tired of pretending to be smart she had been undone since the surgery her thoughts short circuiting all over the place after twenty minutes of thinking poetry july 7 2026 on ellsworth road a poem by heather sellers see the cracks in our foundations but sharon isn t worried about that tonight and every night who will feed the feral cats her front step is lined with aluminum bowls 2025 ron slate on the seawall https www ronslate com rss feed membership accounts privacy policy get email updates commentary writing art contact submit your work about search for