Loyal Miles grew up in Midwestern suburbia near the intersection of streets named Valleyview and Amarado, not far from the geographic center of continental America. He now lives within shouting distance of the BQE in Brooklyn, where he writes long poems and short stories.
A reflection on William Carlos Williams's IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN
While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
My struggle to finish reading any single book has apparently carried into writing this post, which began about a month ...
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
A question in a summer of re-reading: How do you literally handle what you once loved and what you might ...
It was fall, and with two classmates from AP English at Wichita Northwest, I had raked together an epic backyard ...
For the past month, on the daily subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan, I’ve been reading Although Of Course You ...
In an interview on PBS’ Art 21, artist Richard Serra describes the stringent restraints he assigned himself in his early ...
It’s sunny late-1940s Los Angeles. A veteran police detective and a veteran prostitute share a walk in the park. There ...
In hissing flames huge silver bars are roll’d, And stubborn brass, and tin, and solid gold [. . .] There ...