Two Poems from Hyperphantasia | Sara Deniz Akant

“Hyperphantasia” and “Dear Phanta” from Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press, 2022) by Sara Deniz Akant. Published with permission of Rescue Press. Sara Deniz Akant is a Turkish-American poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), Babette (Rescue Press 2015), Parades (Omnidawn 2014), and Latronic Strag (Persistent Editions (2014). She teaches poetry as Professor of the Practice […]

Cigarette | Gemini Wahhaj

She watched him from the back, the red glow of his cigarette a lone light against the black sky. Sometimes, she went out to join him, hastily dressed in a cotton kamiz and shalwar, a shawl wrapped around her shoulders. He turned around and gave her a smile with his stained yellow teeth, then turned back to gaze at the street below with his large, almond-shaped eyes.

Three Poems | Emily Chan

Emily Chan lives and teaches in Iowa City, where she recently completed an MFA as the Iowa Arts (2021) and Alberta Metcalf Kelly Fellow (2022) of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. These pieces belong to a poetry collection in progress, entitled “Meta Verse.” Her work has appeared in collaboration with Hester Street and […]

Three Poems | Vi Khi Nao

VI KHI NAO, 2022 Lammy Award Winner of the Jim Duggins, PhD: Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, is the author of 17 books, including: A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories, which won FC2’s 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize; the novels Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016) & Swimming with Dead Stars (The University of […]

of course | Louise Akers

Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. They earned their MFA from Brown University in May of 2018. Their chapbook, Alien year, was selected by Brandon Shimoda for the 2020 Oversound Chapbook Prize. Akers’s work can be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, MIDTERM, Bat City Review, bæst […]