I’m the pea-sized nub you have to cling to while performing a split to reach a toehold. I’m the alternative to scaling glass-slick faces. Remember that you twice rehearsed the vertical slab called Freeblast, and your intuition hasn’t become lunacy. You still believe in climbing El Capitan alone, without a rope, palming the wall until […]
Beth McDermott
Beth McDermott is the author of How to Leave a Farmhouse, a chapbook published by Porkbelly Press. Her work has been published in journals such as Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, DIAGRAM, Southern Humanities Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Trumpeter, After the Art, American Book Review, and Kudzu House Quarterly, where she was also Poetry Editor. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis.