
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.
"William Morris, Wrapped in Brown Paper" and “For in Marriage” are from a lectio divina of Mrs. Dalloway, my second favorite book ever. I hadn’t read Mrs. Dalloway in years, as if saving up for a special occasion or an emergency—I wanted to linger and live in it, so I read and reread 5 pages at Read more
April 5, 2025
I OEDIPUS on Fridays strip my anger off like mummy-wrap / and pitch it at the night, our dusty orchid wallpaper where / shadows are themselves the other half of us, in bed, inside my Read more
April 5, 2025
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