Justin Andrew Cruzana

Justin Andrew Cruzana

And because I was not good, I did not step inside / the ark. The flood came and went and my body, // in rebuke of the enemy, became one with ground.

Camille Newsom

Camille Newsom

What is there / but great silence, waiting, / and serving time in the body / before returning home

Melissa Joplin Higley

Melissa Joplin Higley

We called it chemo brain—forgetting the names / of people, places, familiar objects

Donald Illich

Donald Illich

At the theater we recognize the movie is us. / All kinds of awful things are happening. / The ocean has covered houses so they barely stick out / like broken teeth.

Books in Brief: Four Plymouth, UK Poets

Books in Brief: Four Plymouth, UK Poets

These four poets and their recent books are representative of the poetry currently being written in Southwest England and the country more broadly.

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The Fall Issue | 2024

The Fall Issue | 2024

At long last, our Fall 2024 issue is here. Check back daily throughout the month of November to read a true harvest of poems, stories, art, and criticism that we’ve curated for you this autumn.

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Corey Mesler

See if anyone is / watching. No one is // watching. The water laps / around you like applause.

Sarah Carey

When the rain slowed, I walked the dog / from whom I wrested one bottlecap, one shoe. // Clicked on a link to a network of bail funds, / found my country, my state. Hovered.

Sarah Carey

When the rain slowed, I walked the dog / from whom I wrested one bottlecap, one shoe. // Clicked on a link to a network

Corey Mesler

See if anyone is / watching. No one is // watching. The water laps / around you like applause.

Paul Hostovsky

Nobody wants to hear a white guy going on about / the black people he has known, especially not / a white guy who hasn’t

Miklós Vámos

It drifted along the side of the building, higher and higher, seemingly aiming to land on the flat rooftop, but then it suddenly slowed down,

Liam Conway

I am here, watching on TV the President and Vice President of the United States of America run on a hamster wheel.

Andi Myles

Philosophy of Life 101
Summer 1985

Exams are due by 1 pm Thursday, February 17, 2067.

Michael Hardin

I have never had a particularly good imagination. Really, it’s kind of dire. It irritates my wife that I can’t imagine a future. I’m not

Diane Simmons

Diane Simmons

There must be thousands of us non-Southerners with similar secret histories, people who profited from the crime of slavery and continue to do so.

Paul Hostovsky: Pitching for the Apostates | Book Review

Hostovsky’s fondness for words and keen ear for spoken language benefit his writing: he can record and create dialogue in a brilliant and natural way. In this respect, he has more in common with short-story writers than with most contemporary poets, who tend to avoid direct speech.

Interview with Artist Anna Hawkins

Anna Hawkins is an artist who works primarily in moving image and installation with an interest in the ways that images, gestures and language are circulated and transformed online and the impacts of technology on the intimate spheres of daily life.

Interview with Artist Johanna Strobel

Weaving together disparate references spanning across histories and geographies, German interdisciplinary artist Johanna Strobel explores the entanglement between philosophy, semiotics, and actuality.

Interview with Artist Padma Rajendran

Padma Rajendran’s works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of patterning and storytelling. She received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and teaches drawing at Vassar College.

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