VOLUME 13
Our thirteenth issue includes poetry by Sandra Lim, Timothy Liu, Tomaž Šalamun (trans. Brian Henry), Pamela Alexander, Dimitri Psurtsev (trans. Philip Metres), Alina Ştefănescu, Jay Gao, Rachel Hadas, W.J. Herbert, Jan Beatty, Stella Wong, Tod Marshall, Adam Tavel, Shakeema Smalls, and more. Nonfiction by Emilio Carrero, Lesley Jenike, Jodie Noel Vinson and others. Fiction by Margot Singer, Shena McAuliffe, Andrés N. Ordorica, and others. Cover art by Tomashi Jackson.
There’s something so compelling and curious and impossible—trying to get inside one’s own mind, to think around and about one’s own thinking. We donated my father’s body to science. I’m pondering the connection between brain and mind Read more
January 8, 2025
I’m far from home, / and you’ve long since receded / into shadow Read more
November 23, 2024
She got out of bed and went over to the window. The old wooden frame was drafty, the panes opaque with frost. A polar vortex, the weatherman had called it. On the map, a magenta swirl stretched down from the Arctic like a giant hand. She breathed a hole. The Read more
November 8, 2024
It was a tricycle, abandoned in some weeds along the river, that prompted this story. In my first draft, I began with section 2, the theft of the trike, and concluded with section 1, the chronological beginning of the tricycle’s history and the saddest of the three sections. I suppose Read more
November 3, 2024
My mother, the poet, Rosemary Cappello, believed in the power of literary journals, and of poetry, to change the world. Of course she was a lover of books, inveterately so, but she reserved a special place on her shelves for literary journals where many voices, many moods commingle; where micro-communities Read more
October 26, 2024