Letters to My Sister

Letters to My Sister by Angela Vasquez-Giroux

Composed as a series of letters to a family member serving in Iraq, Angela Vasquez-Giroux's first poetry chapbook is a vivid evocation of the fear, displacement, and uncertainty that war imposes on those who are left behind. Through images of fragmentation and fragility—misreadings of scripture, partial glimpses of a loved one in a news report—Letters to My Sister speaks of the challenges of survival, both for those in the field and at home.

Poetry, 15 pp. Click here to download PDF in new window.

Angela Vasquez-Giroux is a textbook middle child. Her fascination with words began at age three, when her mother taught her to say extraordinary. She lives in Lansing with her partner and daughter.

Proliferation

"Line Jester" by Michael Duncan has been published by the online magazine Void.

Congratulations to Mr. Duncan, and for those who like "Line Jester," be sure to check out the additional stories available in Line Jester and Other Stories.

Up next

We've been quiet for a while, but we've been busy, and over the next several weeks, you'll finally get a chance to see what we've been working on.

As I write, we're putting the finishing touches on Letters to My Sister, a powerful set of poems from Angela Vasquez-Giroux. We're also knee-deep in The Bridge and the River, a collection of poems from Timothy Carmody. Finally, we have third project in the works, which is a bit of a stretch for us, but we're really excited about it. I don't want to say too much and ruin the surpise.

So that's what we're working on, but we'd also like to know what you'd like to read. What should we be looking for? More stories? More scripts? Poems, poems, and more poems? If you have ideas or requests, please let us know.

A nice tie-in

The New York Review of Books has posted, from its archive, a 1999 essay by Joan Acocella on Vaslav Nijinsky. (I'd like to think that the NYRB's timing is a response to Meg sparling's recent collection, The Nijinsky Poems, but it probably has more to do with Acocella's new collection of essays, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, which is reviewed by Joyce Carol Oates in the NYRB's current issue.)