Sinkholes
take you where
you don’t want to go.
Where you’d been
and had passed smilingly through,
and were alive. Then.
Novelist, essayist, and poet Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She earned a BA from Syracuse University, where she graduated valedictorian, and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, Oates counts historical...