And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its sprinkling basins and its flesh hooks and its scoops; you shall make all its implements of copper. ~Exodus 27:3 I appreciate a ...

Edward Vidaurre’s “Instructions” reminds us of the games we play with our minds to get through hard times, laddering down — then conjuring amends — to calm our own restlessness. His jazzy rhythms and ...

Hieu Minh Nguyen‘s poems travel through time. Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with “White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual.” The ...

Last spring, a dozen members of the Worker Writers School workshopped a poem titled “Instruction Manual.” The group meets monthly from September to May in the offices of PEN America, a literary ...

And you shall make the courtyard of the Mishkan on the southern side [there shall be] hangings for the courtyard of twisted fine linen, one hundred cubits long on one side. ~ Exodus 27:9 The Ikea-like ...