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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.

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
I've witnessed our pup's prolonged, soft wailing on only two occasions. The first was on his initial evening away from his mother and littermates, nestled on my lap. The second occurrence is depicted within this poem. Read more
Kimberly Ann Southwick is an Aries with a Capricorn Moon & Ascendant. She is the founder & editor in chief of the literary arts journal GIGANTIC SEQUINS, which has been in print since 2009. Her debut full-length poetry collection, ORCHID ALPHA, is out via Trembling Pillow Press as of April Read more
When writing a series of poems about toxic masculinity’s impact on climate change, I conceived of a nameless character simply referred to as “the hooligan”—a somewhat feral individual who lives at the farther edges of American society, who in some ways acts as a symbolic representation for the wild and Read more
You know what it's like. Salt Solutions. Buffers. Relationships. Whatever works. Read more
This poem was written after I moved overseas for the second time and was feeling very uprooted. I had a file on my computer of family photos that was transferred to me by a family member, and I loved going through them for hours in an attempt to ground myself Read more