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Celebrating (again): Contributor Paisley Rekdal wins the 2013 Rilke Prize. Here's a little more about her.

Celebrating (again): Contributor Paisley Rekdal wins the 2013 Rilke Prize. Here’s a little more about her.

   Updated in June 2018: Poet and essayist Paisley Rekdal, who contributed to our “Dangerous Territory” issue,  adds yet another honor to a list the now includes an astounding collection of honors and awards, including (now) the über-important Rilke Award and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, Pushcart...
The String Theory

The String Theory

In honor of what would have been the 51st birthday of award-winning author David Foster Wallace, check out one of our favorite short essays of his, “The String Theory”. Originally published in the July 1996 issue of Esquire, the piece is “an obsessive inquiry (with footnotes) into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.” Read the full...