lately I’ve been thinking of poetry as one of the first recording devices…and you ask yourself, What shall I record? And how shall I make…
“Snow” is also a piece of a larger, work-in-progress series of stories. Winter in a northern village vanishes overnight and is replaced by a scorching…
“Disappearing Act” borrows its title from the artist Bruce Nauman’s 2019 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. I’m often inspired by art in…
John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area, Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Lives of Water, all with Carnegie Mellon UP. With Kazim, Ali, he has co-edited a volume of…
I’m not sure why the word “vicarious” brings to mind, for me, what it does, but when I hear it, I think first of the…
I was inspired to write this poem by two poets, Rachel Mennies and Marie Howe. I loved the way Mennies, in her book, The Naomi…
We are beyond ecstatic to have Tomashi Jackson’s Blessed Be the Rock for the cover of the 2024 Ocean State Review, a work that perfectly…
Zebrun’s characters, far from the pomp and ceremony of the Vatican, are the Italian and Irish working men and women of New York. In the…
“Lately I’ve been practicing to stay.” says the speaker in the prologue poem, “What the Sea Told Me.” And from there, as if on a…
Nick Rees Gardner’s linked stories portray people as they are: alternately hilarious, desperate, resilient, broken. For the characters contained in Delinquents, the crux is determining…