Anna Sandy Elrod

Feb 14, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Anna Sandy Elrod |Jean-Luc Bouchard |Destini Baylis Adams |Sahara Sidi

Dear young poets, you should knowI’ll sleep with the best ones. Pulitzer pussy, Guggenheim gooch,Hugo anything — I’m good withBooker bastards in bed. PEN isdependent on tradition & individualtalent, your remarkable abilityto live & die both on the pageand in the air — face down. God,they know devotion so well. Contain multitudes and mommy issues. They can abandon one thingfor the next muse. Those starsare like dead. Did you know that? Keep counting them, baby.

Dec 13, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Jean-Luc Bouchard |Rita Mookerjee |Dolan Morgan |Anna Sandy Elrod

When my husband was a child, he tells me, his favorite thing was the Titanic sinking. Not the Titanic, the Titanic sinking. My husband did not have a particular fondness for boats, not even enormous ones, not even the most impressive ones the world had ever seen. What he loved was the wreck: the way that the indestructible was destroyed, the way hubris has an inevitable end that we might as well sit back and admire. He told me this on our first date.