Blackbird Archive← All topics
work
217 pieces
CPR @ 2pm
PTSD
The Circus
The Felling
Emily Dickinson’s Maid Remembers
Palmetto Train
“Through the Window of Someone Like Me”
Almond Sweaterhead
A Trade
The Checklist
The Recipe for Making Blood
from ‘Luster’
The New Poem
Effacement
Review by Ty Phelps | “Luster” by Raven Leilani
Gin and Peach
The Teacher
Perish
Made of Sugar
Managing Remotely: Blackbird in Pandemic
Line Dance
The Cantor
The White Thing
Artist’s Talk
Documenting Landscapes
The Potato Eaters
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
Escape Plans
My Teachers
Fundamental Attribution Error
Fifteen
Nothing But
Angela
Grave by the Lake
Road Salvage
A Record of Us
Call Me by My Name
His First Case: from Chapter XVIII—When the Epidemic Struck the Village
10 Bela Road
Swooping through Broken Windows
“A Reading by Gretchen Comba and Karen Solie”
The Ritual
Confetti Time
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
“MFA Alumni Reading”
Mary Lou Hall
Hanna Pylväinen
“A Reading by Mary Lou Hall and Hanna Pylväinen”
Welcome & Introduction by John Ulmschneider
The Polygrapher
Coat The Skillet
Letter 2
To Get Here Today (a piano)
“A Conversation with Angela Flournoy”
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016”
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016 Panel Discussion”
“Introductions Reading Loop”
Gregory Kimbrell
Allison Titus
A Reading by Gregory Kimbrell and Allison Titus
Carrie Brown
Hiba Krisht
Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Reading
The Best Library in the World
Tracking the Muse: Contributors on Process
Risky Business
A Knowledge of Crisis
Body Bags
Black Pan
Supermarket in Autumn
What I Learned in Grad School
Playwrights’ Notes
Fugitive Materials
Sarah Eckhardt
Gordon Parks
Michele Poulos
Anna Journey
David St. John
Welcome & Introduction
“A Reading by Dinty W. Moore”
Rabbit
El almacén
The Corner Grocery
Inside the Envelope
Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives
Last Hay
Review | Big Cactus, by Sylvia Wilkinson
Boom
Crumbs
The Surrender of Breda
Parking FAQ
Elevator
“Launching an Open Process Initiative,” BirdLab Features & Blog
Company Town
Review | Songs for the Carry-On, by Steve Scafidi
“Cabell First Novelist Award Panel Discussion”
The Watch
[The boss rises up the boss keeps her job]
[Some days one day every day I am over like the]
[Once the boss fired a twin the twin was torn in]
The Ocularist
Col. Othniel Sweet’s Mysteries of Nature, # 103 (divining)
Down and Out
Human Resources
The museum of museum guards
Publishing and Building a Career
The Art of Storytelling
When Are You Coming Home?
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Art & Artifice, Howard Risatti & Steven Glass
from Unseen Character
Sif Mons & the Messenger Birth Star
What They Tell You
Cook Takes Stock after the Ice Road Fails
Nights with Almanzo, Days
Phenix City
Nursing Art, Julie Hensley
Five Notes on the Infallible, Eve Jones
Defying Gravity
Couch
Passeridae
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Reading by Deb Olin Unferth
Banking for the Dead
from Vacation
Where Is My Sadhu Painting?
Director's Notes, Full Plate Collection Introduction
A Reading by Bret Lott
On Process—Writing a Short Story, Jocelyn Cullity
Texture, Zachary Mason
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Reading by Deb Olin Unferth
1-800-BUTTERBOLLY
Americaland
Mined Muzzle Velocity
Insulation
Domestic Economics
Wendy’s Friend
Wendy’s Friend
Wendy’s Friend
Platform: An Introduction to Claudia Emerson
What Is This?, Thomas Cooper
Marcus II: I was a man with pure intentions
A Reading by David Baker, Blackbird
A Conversation with David Baker, Blackbird
A Conversation with David Baker, Blackbird
A Conversation with Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
Carol Houck Smith Obituary, W.W. Norton & Company, Blackbird
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Carol Houck Smith , Blackbird
When the Lights Go Down
Menu
I Have No Explanation for the Horse, Terry Gibson
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Friday Afternoons on Bus Number 51
Postmortem Examination on the Body of Clifford Baxter
Review of Kettle Bottom by Diane Fisher
Possum Agonistes
Population 204
Holding For the Farrier
Friday Night Fights in Florida: Contention From Wallace Stevens to Jay Hopler
Introduction, The Dear Boy
Introduction, The Dear Boy
Introduction, The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The House of Commons
Obadiah Chapters
The Tar Road
Temp
The Incentive of the Maggot
Shigeo Kawashima, Ashley Kistler |From Beppu to Richmond: Shigeo Kawashima’s Story
Fourth Annual VCU First Novelist Award Reading
Homecoming
Caretaker
The Melancholy Tailor
Tony D'Souza, Blackbird
Cruelty
Salvinia Molesta
Epistle to Elsner on the Eve of his 34th Birthday
Hal Crowther, Blackbird
Blackbird Feature, Eighth Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2005
The Countdown
An Interview with William Matthews, David Wojahn and James Harms
From Long for This World
An Interview with William Matthews, David Wojahn and James Harms
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with David Daniel, April 8, 2005
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Philip Levine, March 16, 2005
Dear England, Please Send Me a Redheaded Boy
Blackbird Feature, Wesley Gibson, from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Cortland, 1970
I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
Blackbird Feature, Sixth Annual Levis Prize Reading, December 1, 2003
Professional Cinderella: Disney World Employee Profile
The University Investigation Into My Classroom Pedagogy
Springerle
Firewood
Blackbird Feature, Fifth Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2002
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Steve Scafidi, January 31, 2003
This is the Age of Beautiful Death
Blackbird Feature, George Garrett, July 1, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Henry Taylor, May 1, 2002