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.
You know what it's like. Salt Solutions. Buffers. Relationships. Whatever works. Read more
November 27, 2023
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
October 29, 2023
Deep pandemic days, fans blowing, windows open, temperatures checked, hands clean, my students masked or streaming little squares on my laptop, I taught Keats as I’ve done for years. I teach every ninth grader in the private school, every student reading this poem pursuing the hope of art and beauty Read more
October 21, 2023
I lost someone I loved very much. One of the last meals we ever had together was homemade potato soup. The roof of his attic leaked whenever it stormed, which resulted in the kitchen's ceiling light sometimes filling with water. I fell into a deep depression shortly after this person's Read more
October 15, 2023
The feet are earth And transform Fear into power. The legs are fire And transform anger Into power. Read more
October 15, 2023