"About the Work" with Stephanie Niu In our "About the Work" series, Savannah Trent asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Niu's poem, "A Lao Jia Song is A Song of Home," in SER vol. 38.2. In the past few months of moving, aging, and thinking about aging, I’ve found great comfort in Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys. I came across a copy in San Francisco’s Green Apple Books and miraculously opened it to the exact poem I on

"About the Work" with Sarah Fawn Montgomery In our "About the Work" series, Savannah Trent asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Montgomery's essay, "In Flame" in SER vol. 38.2. I wrote “In Flame” after several years of what seemed like a world figuratively and quite literally on fire. Friends lost their Massachusetts home in a fire on New Year’s Day, another friend lost her grandmother in the California wildfires,

"About the Work" with Mag Gabbert In our "About the Work" series, Savannah Trent asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Gabbert's poem, "Pink" in SER vol. 38.2. Recently I enjoyed watching The Great Pottery Throw Down—in many ways a clear spinoff of The Great British Baking Show—on HBO Max. And, when I say I "enjoyed" it, I mean I watched all three available seasons in less than 48 hours. Some of the things that par

The Body Never Forgets It was July, the summer before my junior year of high school, and I was staying up late one night, waiting to binge. Howard and I were the only two kids home for the summer. Robert and Rachel were away at camp, and Janet was driving across the country with her friends, as everyone was doing at the time. Even though it was just Howard and me, we didn’t spend much time together. He was working at Uncle Buddy’s junkyard, wearing a hard hat, operating a cra