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.
I had already been wrangling with the urge to write about Tiresias as a trans/gender non-conforming figure. The two ideas merged in this poem, which originated as a prose form in response to Carson’s piece and also used a dialogue with a mother. Did Tiresias have a good relationship with Read more
September 25, 2023
"While Thinking of Another's Suffering" is one of seventy poems written for my first collection about an Angolan woman named Angela who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in August of 1619, more than a year before the Mayflower arrived in the North. Read more
September 24, 2023
Jane Satterfield’s newest collection of poems, The Badass Brontës, reimagines the lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, nineteenth-century sisters and authors who published under male pseudonyms and spent much of their short lives in their father’s parsonage on the Yorkshire moors. Often focusing on middle sister Emily, poet and Read more
September 23, 2023
Sum Ledger is a powerful and wide-ranging meditation — via a dazzling array of poetic forms and sources — on money, class, and poverty, that complicates the narrative of late-stage capitalism in America. — Erika Meitner Read more
September 19, 2023
My family left Odesa, Ukraine, in 1991, shortly before I turned nine and the Soviet Union collapsed. We came straight to Los Angeles, with only a brief layover at JFK, where a distant relative bought me my weight in candy bars. Utterly disoriented, I was also fiercely determined to find Read more
September 1, 2023
“Soft Kitchen with Tea Towel and Flames” was written across several years and spaces, its “you” shifting and slipping each time I thought I might be close to grasping some clarity. The poem departs right away from an off-the-page occasion of quaint kitchen bliss and crescendos with disaster. Read more
August 30, 2023