Jim Whiteside
Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019), and is a 2019-2021 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, his poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and Boston Review. Originally from Cookeville, Tennessee, he lives in Oakland, California.
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Figs
I held the fruit the way I might have held a feather, turning it to view each side. I loved the story of the fig wasp, Agaonidae, how in each fig’s center was a wingless and silent creature, disintegrated, eaten. Led by food to become food. This was when I still felt whole ownership of […]