The men liked to talk. Trippi, they’d say, Trippi. What’d he do now? They had families, but what’d the kid do? His latest was always worth laughs, and a sense of who they were. The kid had something loose.… more
Writer: Kent Jacobson
THE LONER’S HOLE
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Kent JacobsonA maverick poet and old friend asked if I’d like to replace him teaching prison inmates. Why me? I wondered, and didn’t ask. Men I know don’t often speak directly, even to friends. If pressed, my friend might not have said. Anyway, I can’t ask. He died not long after from a heart attack.… more
Betrayal
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Kent Jacobson…bookishness and cultivation, so treasured by those who possess them, are no guarantee of human value…. Nobody is a more worth-while person for having read Yeats. – Anthony Lane I scratch notes for a piece to describe a social divide I experienced as a child in a factory town in Rhode Island. I… more
