Amy Leigh Cutler

Amy Leigh Cutler is the author of Orange Juice and Rooftops and the chapbooks, “American Woman,” “You Gentle Thing,” and “Whale.” In 2011 she received the Esther Unger Poetry Prize, the Goodman Fund Poetry Award, and the David Markowitz Poetry Award. She has toured the U.S. and the U.K., and appeared at The Kilmainham Arts Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, The Bowery Poetry Club, and for Poets & Writers in New York. She is a freelance photojournalist for World-New York and The Basics online magazine.

As Usual

Handcraft

Tags: The Paris Review

April 6, 2012

As Usual I drain the tofu first, holding the heavy white sponge in my palm. Sear it til the white browns. Moving that to a bowl, I hear the bell. Someone is at the door. I wipe my hands, buzz him in after throwing the chopped onions, mushrooms, peppers into the still [...]