by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
One evening, I returned home to find the kitchen covered in severed fingers. Green ones. I mean, that was my first impression. But the fingers were far too stubby to be human (perhaps a toddler ogre?). A selection of pots, tins and cups crowded the countertops. When...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 19, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
Where would you go in a nuclear attack? This is a question I hadn’t thought to ask myself until recently, with two madmen publicly measuring the sizes of their … buttons. But there it is. This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – normally...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 17, 2017 | featured, Robin Kirk
There’s a not-so-secret society that could include someone you love – or you. We have no badges or special handshakes. But we do have a meeting time: Tuesdays on NBC at 9 p.m. EST. Or via Hulu, fans waiting expectantly for the latest episode of “This is Us” to load....
by Robin Kirk | Oct 5, 2017 | featured, Robin Kirk
When he was a boy, my dad received a marvelous gift: his father’s own boyhood rifle. It’s a beautiful object. Burnished wood stock, a thundercloud-grey barrel. After my dad died, it was the one thing I really wanted. At this moment – 2:45 a.m., cat stretched beside me...
by Robin Kirk | Sep 27, 2017 | featured, Robin Kirk
Thrilled that my poem, “Imperator Furiosa posts a status update,” was included in this great anthology by Lost Horse Press.
by Robin Kirk | Sep 11, 2017 | featured, Robin Kirk
I have sort of a pet peeve. Kind of annoying, to be honest. I seem to be obsessing about it more than usual, as I write this, while the summer heat descends. These three phrases – “kind of,” “sort of” and “seem to be” – have become the frayed edge of the...
