Theadora Walsh is a writer based in Oakland, California. Her digital poetry has been shown at The Glucksman, the Granoff Center, and Pratt University and published by Oral.Pub, Inpatient Press, and Unbag. Her essays and art criticism can be found in Art in America, Artforum, Variable West, Hyperallergic, Art Papers, BOMB Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast Magazine and elsewhere. Currently, in collaboration with Gabriel Garza, she runs a curatorial project called In Concert.
Ars Poetica | Mia X. Perez
Mia X. Perez is a PhD student of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in The Closed Eye Open, Inverted Syntax, Raw Art Review, AGON Journal, and more.
Two Poems | Maggie Wang
Maggie Wang is a 2021 Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic and Barbican Young Poet and the reviews editor at SUSPECT, the journal of NYC-based literary nonprofit Singapore Unbound. Her debut pamphlet, The Sun on the Tip of a Snail’s Shell, was published by Hazel Press in September 2022.
Five Poems | Laura Goldin
Laura Goldin is a publishing lawyer in New York. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in a number of literary journals including Driftwood Press, San Pedro River Review, Apple Valley Review, Mom Egg Review, One Art, and Rogue Agent. Earlier poems appeared in The Comstock Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Bellevue Literary Review.
A Review of Rachel James’s “An Eros Encyclopedia”
Published as a part of Wendy’s Subway Passage Series in September 2022, Rachel James’s debut book of poetry strips any skepticism about the expressive limits of sex and death with dissident and magnetic indulgence in the peculiarities of desire.
Two Poems | Jimmy Lo
Jimmy Lo lives and writes in Atlanta. He’s the author of The Sea is White and A Reduction published by Little Red Leaves Textile Series. You can find him online at jimmylorunning.com
The Cows | Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly’s fourth book of poems, Chariot, will be published this spring by Wave Books. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.
Tear | Jared Daniel Fagen
Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His prose poems, essays, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.
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 […]
LINGUINE NINETEEN (CITY CENTER) | tilghman goldsborough
Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough (b. Richmond, VA, USA, 1991). Poet. His work has appeared in The Mall, the Leveler, and Nomaterialism (vol II). Forthcoming work includes The Western with 1080 press and object 7 ( ,a subject loosely, ,bundled in a frame, ) with Futurepoem. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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 […]
An Interview | Finding a Speaking Voice: Colm Tóibín’s “Vinegar Hill”
Irish politics, gay saunas, Expressionist painting, and the influence of Ashbery, Binchy, and Bishop on Tóibín’s captivating new book from Beacon Press, Vinegar Hill.
Of Calving | Taeyin Kang ChoGlueck
Taeyin Kang ChoGlueck (they/them) is a Korean writer born in Minneapolis and raised in S. Korea & the American Midwest. They’ve been a finalist for the Firsts! Kelsey Street Prize judged by Bhanu Kapil and the Kay Murphy Prize judged by Myung Mi Kim. They are a Lambda fellow of […]
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 […]
Miracle as Archive and Event: A Review of Renee Gladman’s “Plans for Sentences”
The concept of the line that runs through a line of text is just that—a concept independent of its communications. That conceptual value is uncannily visualizable in Gladman’s drawings, which sometimes flash approximations of words or phrases. The “languageness” of the drawings is radiant but unintelligible.
A Scandal in Peril | Cedar Sigo
Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Tribe. He studied writing and poetics at Naropa University. His most recent books are (poetry) All This Time and (lectures) Guard the Mysteries both published by Wave Books in 2021. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist’s […]
muse | Rachel James with Valerie Hsiung and Sarah Passino
Rachel James (b. Toronto, Canada) is a poet and artist with a background in experimental ethnography. She has presented her work in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including at Miguel Abreu Gallery and Essex Flowers in New York City, Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, The New Gallery in Calgary, […]
Two Poems from “Glass Manifesto” | Will Russo
Will Russo is a Chicago-based poet from New York and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. His work has appeared in Annulet, Watershed Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. He is poetry editor at Great Lakes Review. Find him at willrusso.com.
One Last Wish for Warmer Kisses | Basie Allen
Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City’s Lower East Side. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. His debut collection of poems, Palm-Lined with Potience, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in March 2022. Cristina Iorga has earned an MFA in Printmaking from […]
Three Poems | Jared Walsh
Jared Walsh is a novelist and poet who lives in Heidelberg, Germany. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. His first novel, Interludes, was published by Scaffolds Press in 2020, and he will publish his second novel, November, later this year. Judith Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on […]