Dan Clendenin

Gravy

Selected by Dan Clendenin

Raymond Carver (1938–1988)

Gravy

No other word will do. For that’s what it was. Gravy.
Gravy, these past ten years.
Alive, sober, working, loving and
being loved by a good woman. Eleven years
ago he was told he had…

Send Her Away!

By Dan Clendenin

Driving home from church last week, I encountered a woman at a stoplight who was asking for help. There she was — standing in the heat of the day and all the exhaust fumes with her cardboard sign, at the busiest intersection in the county. I rolled down my…

Another Brooklyn

By Dan Clendenin

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), 175pp.

Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Newberry Medal and National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming (and numerous other awards for thirty other titles) once…