"About the Work" with Eric Tyler Benick In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Benick's poem, "fox hunt," in SER Vol. 39.2. The poem “fox hunt” is part of a long sequence of poems I have been writing since 2013 (also appropriately titled “the fox hunts”). The use of the fox is a fairly pedestrian practice in symbolism on my part but has been historically useful for en

Elevator Pitch She hired a career coach after bombing her twentieth interview. The career coach told her that she must shorten her elevator pitch if she ever hoped to land full-time employment. He said, “You must whittle it down to one syllable, a single vocal gesture, stripped of all needless social lubricant, into which you can stuff your qualifications, goals, and even a bit of personality (if you can manage it). No one has time for anything else.” She asked him what that

An Interview with Catriona Secker Haley Laningham Nature Spirit 2 See more of Catriona Secker's artwork in Vol. 39.2 here. Catriona Secker is an Australian visual artist and teacher living in Sydney. She has been exhibited across Australia, as well as in Hong Kong and the United States. We featured eight graphite illustrations of hers in Volume 39.2—you can view them here. Of her own work, Secker says: The main theme that runs through my work is consciousness and connections