Jerry seemed a smart lad, but he was more interested in herbs and spices when he should be paying attention to poisons.
Lil Miquela Contemplates my Freckles | Em Dial
Em Dial is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and white chronically ill poet, grower, and educator born and raised on Ohlone land in the Bay Area of California. A 2022 Kundiman Fellow and recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award, […]
At the Sendak Museum | Charlie Sterchi
Marianne wore a nice dress and looked very handsome in it. It was her 32nd birthday. Marianne is six feet tall. She and I had an agreement. We would see how it went at the Sendak Museum and go from there.
DANSE MACABRE | Ellen Boyette
Ellen Boyette received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Alberta Kelley Fellow and Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her first book of poems, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist for the Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize judged by Solmaz Sharif as well as the CSU 2021 Lighthouse Series Book Prize […]
Nights to Nowhere, 1987 | Wendy BooydeGraaff
The night I discovered raspberry schnapps, you and I shared the whole mickey1 on someone’s parents’ bed. Maybe that was the night that solidified our high school friendship, made me have picnics in the park with you when I came back summers from college, made us contact each other on […]
Two Poems | Loisa Fenichell
Loisa Fenichell’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has been featured or is forthcoming in Guernica magazine, Washington Square Review, Narrative magazine, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of an award from Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop and is currently […]
Two Poems | Erika Rodriguez
Erika Rodriguez is a poet and essayist working in the public humanities.
Two Poems | Rowland Bagnall
Rowland Bagnall is a writer and poet based in Oxford, UK. His first collection of poems, A Few Interiors, was published by Carcanet Press in 2019. He is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, where he specializes in North American poetry and poetics. A […]
Visual Erasure Poems from EVERYTHING IS
Five visual erasures by Katrina Roberts based on Nicole Callihan’s sequence of poems “Everything is Temporary.”
Excerpts from Kos | Steve Salmoni
Steven Salmoni’s recent publications include A Day of Glass and the chapbook Landscape, With Green Mangoes, both from Chax Press. He teaches at Pima Community College in Tucson, AZ and also serves on the Board of Directors for POG, a Tucson-based literary organization that hosts an annual reading series.
Dream Catchers
I My husband looks at me, a history of ghost stories in his eyes. My boss questioned me about the dream catcher in my office, he mutters. He wants me to take it down. I cannot give sound to this feeling inside me. Instead, I reply: Did you? This corporation […]
The Smiths (un)cover songs, bioluminescence & other weird parties
Savannah Slone is a queer, bipolar, and disabled writer, editor, and English professor who currently dwells in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Paper Darts, the Indianapolis Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Crab Creek Review, FIVE:2:ONE, Pidgeonholes, decomP magazinE, Crab Fat Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Hobart […]
Charles | Juli C. Lasselle
My name is not my given name; it’s my chosen name. The women in my family—my mother, my sister, and I—all have names we chose for ourselves and all have different surnames. It can be confusing, this history of re-identification. It’s common enough for people to rename themselves, to reclaim […]
Two Poems | Valerie Griggs
Valerie Griggs has been published in Typishly, Avatar Review, California Quarterly, Coachella Review, Door Is A Jar, Green Hills Literary Lantern, I-70 Review, The Ledge, Litbreak Magazine, Apricity Magazine, Paragon Journal, Pisgah Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Sanskrit Magazine, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Steam Ticket, Streetlight Magazine, […]
Midnight Album | Jeff Fleischer
“Want to take a ride?” my mother asks. It’s past eleven, and I’m watching David Letterman on the small TV in my bedroom, the one without a remote. I only finished my homework a few minutes ago, during one of the commercial breaks after tonight’s top-ten list. We don’t have […]
Fearful Symmetries | Jeff McLaughlin
My father rarely raised his voice. Growing up the eldest of nine in a house with only four bedrooms left him reserved, thoughtful, and inclined towards subtlety. He used a modest inheritance, the only financial help he ever received from his family, to purchase a sailboat, in part because it […]