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VOLUME 12

Our twelfth issue includes poetry by Rick Barot, Sylvie Baumgartel, Lindsay Turner, Adrian Blevins, Joe Hall, Graham Foust, Nikia Chaney, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Nicole Higgins, Steve Langan, and more. Nonfiction by James Hannaham, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Joel Long and others. Fiction by Michael X. Wang, Katherine Vaz, and others. Cover art by Igor Moritz.

Unfiltered and full of dark humor, desire, and sexual energy, Southwick’s debut poetry collection, Orchid Alpha, unpacks the id of the modern day woman. The speaker flirts with the edges of gender constructs and social boundaries, between “being good” and inviting indiscretion. Played out in acrylic bathtubs and hotel bars, Read more
The forward slash is used, of course, to indicate a line break when writing about poetry and since forward slashes are used throughout, “A Baton”—one of the few dualities—I will write out “(line break)” and consequently “(stanza break)” to honor the use of the forward slash in the poem. Read more
Every Single Bird Rising is this poet’s second language. Xiaoly Li’s debut collection is both weightless and heavy, depending on the line your eyes end up lingering on. What I love about this collection is this text presents some challenges as a writer: I cannot tell you who I am Read more
Almost a decade ago, when I was in the thick of writing the first drafts of “The Itch” and the other linked stories in Radical Red, I scored a gig teaching “Humor Writing” and “The Hero’s Journey” over the summer at the Duke Young Writer’s Camp. I was qualified to Read more
From October 2019 to May 2020, poet Sean Singer and I wrote variously lined stanzas back and forth between where he was in New York and where I was in British Columbia and Arizona. Sean’s and my irregular-at-first correspondence took on special meaning and gained intensity during the early months Read more
There’s much discourse around Marie Kondo. Something about the ill effects of late capitalism being assigned to the individual or choice rubs people the wrong way. Still, some of us desire order, control, some meaning in materialism. During a particularly nasty fire season, when the air was full of other Read more