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.
Ever since my father handed Neruda's Isla Negra, he has been one of my favorite poets. This used to be a much longer poem, then I started revising it for more than a month. You just can't avoid mentioning Neruda's romantic-erotic tendencies that are prevalent in his oeuvre, hence the Read more
October 9, 2024
The poem is not ekphrastic in nature. Instead, I wondered what it’d be like to call a poem after a made-up work of art, to pose as ekphrasis without actually being said. At the time I wrote the first draft of this poem in December 2016, I’d been seeing lots Read more
October 9, 2024
The desert is deeper than I thought, deeper than thought, that trickster, bait- and-switcher, rabbit snare. Read more
September 17, 2024
Lately I’ve been feverish, prickly hot and sleepless. None of this work feels like Read more
September 17, 2024
34. It seems I stand there now, that I’ll continue to stand, long after all has been demolished. Can you see me, erect in the doorframe, white smock over dusky dress—fastened by ribbons, ornamented with crucifix and pocket watch—dark hair parted, perpetually awaiting my students? Read more
September 11, 2024
by the docks, we go looking for steves frozen key lime pie on a stick covered in raspberry Read more
September 6, 2024