By Nicholas Alexander HayesJay Besemer and I once collaborated on a performance/workshop called “Restrictive Andragogies and Ex-Citation.” We were both at a stage in our teaching careers in which we were challenged by the way we were expected to approach our...
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Peg Alford Pursell’s Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow lures the reader in with small wistful passages. They are wisps of prose that would seem to be easily consumed.
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
The beauty of a fragment is its transience. It is a tatter of what has been forgotten. The poetry of Sappho is beautiful (at least in the translations I have read.) But what has always struck me more is the poignant absence of the rest of the work.
Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
The titular poem of Kokumo’s collection Reacquainted with Life ends with the lines: “then find pride in where I lay/ wounded but alive.”
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
The city dominates the narratives of queer literature. Radclyffe Hall sends the protagonist of The Well of Loneliness to find themselves in London and finally Paris.
By Nicholas Alexander HayesIn the atomic theory of the ancient Greeks, atoms moved freely throughout the void. They only begin to accumulate when one veers from its trajectory and knocks into another. The subtle process of swerving, collision and accumulation...
By Nicholas Alexander HayesAfter the massacre at a Latinx night at Pulse Orlando, Christopher Soto posted a eulogy called, “All The Dead Boys Look Like Me.” Soto expresses their frustration and exhaustion at mourning once again. They describe a moment before they...
By Nicholas HayesDaniel Borzutzky uses the word unitedstatesian, and it irritates me. The word is one I would never use in reference to the US or its citizens. It is a word that challenges the assertion of American Exceptionalism. It is a word that shows that US...
By Nicholas HayesJarrett Neal arrived at my Queer Literature class a few minutes before the arranged time. I was asking my class how Barbara and Jaime acted as a foil for Stephen and Mary in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. We were discussing the way social...
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Fissures, Grant Faulkner’s collection of 100-word stories, is beautiful in its smallness. Faulkner’s stories are constructed to capture the essence of longer works with acerbic brevity.
Nicholas Alexander Hayes reads Declension
The fall issue of Your Impossible Voice is here with incredible new work from Aaron Shurin, Eugene Lim, Kathleen Jesme, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Fernando Vallejo (translated by Laia García Sánchez and Robert Jackson), Kyle Hemmings, Daniel J. Pizappi, and more.