More than a million people wrote letters to Jackie Kennedy after her husband’s assassination. Some were famous, like Langston Hughes, but most were just normal people, sending their condolences and expressing their sadness and bewilderment. In her new book, “Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation,” released by HarperCollins, Ellen Fitzpatrick went through these [...]
Author Archives: Skye Parrott
Poetry by Matthew Dickman
February 23, 2010 – 11:32 am
FOUR SWITCHES 1. VENT I can feel the Christ inside me with his side cut open so he can breathe like a fish like someone who has been choking on a small bone, maybe a tiny part of another animal’s vertebrae, when a friend grabs him from behind, forces him to lunge, the bone flying [...]
