Lyric Essay
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Hands
Daddy’s were beautiful. At the table, holding a piece of buttered bread. Cutting meat, lifting his glass to his lips, water droplets on its surface wetting his fingertips. When he looked behind him before backing up the car, he reached his right hand over the front seat. From the backseat, I stared at it. Continue reading
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Bread
I was six years old when I first tasted homemade bread. In the hills of Western Maryland, in a cramped kitchen with outdated appliances and faded wallpaper, my grandmother filled Mason jars with fruit preserves, pickles, tomatoes, and green beans. She grew salad greens in her tiny backyard and baked her own cakes and pies. Continue reading
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When in Rome: A (Somewhat) Lyrical Tribute to the Lyric Essay
It defies strict definition. It encompasses a variety of forms. It demands more from the reader than other types of essays. It affords writers a measure of freedom that some find daunting. The lyric essay: the most artistic, the most poetic, the least informative, the least reliant on narrative conventions of all the styles of Continue reading
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