From Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/sound designer. He has written eleven musicals, including Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on War & Peace headed to Broadway this fall. Other shows include Ghost […]
Lessons from the Salmon | Darcy Eldridge
They could not shut them, elephant feet not my own, no, not you either like a reindeer these belong to a higher order, poor Edda before the butterfly in the mirror able only to recognize home in its reflection, material, not moral elements, yes trout but what about salmon? I […]
“Myrtle-Wyckoff” and others
“Myrtle-Wyckoff” “Ridgewood” “New Haven Amtrak Station” “Rockaways” Derek Saffe is an Argentine photographer. Raised in Miami, he moved to NYC as punishment for growing up in a tropical paradise. He takes his sartorial cues from his grandmother and his eye for images from his mother.
The Radical | Daniel Tovrov
Three times Bogdân Ŗžič has refused to debate me. I have challenged him in print and in several public forums, and tonight, I will challenge him again, in person, during the lecture he is giving at Columbia University, and I will make him confront his own traitorousness to the leftist […]
Two Poems | Nick Chrastil
My Schedule I clean out the fridge and scrub the stove. My mom keeps saying you have no idea how happy this makes me so I leave for New York for like a week and for instance on the train these girls ask a guy if they […]
Two Poems | Kayla Krut
Grizzly Peak shows Mount Diablo in the distance: the last time they think a grizzly killed a man was 1865, Strawberry Canyon. This was also the last reported sighting. The dregs of that canyon’s creek slices Berkeley campus. They killed the biggest ever found in California in Valley Center earlier […]
So The Pretty Roommate Dies | Ben Philippe
It happens. People die and their rent checks bounce. Not because their mortal records, checking accounts and all, are suddenly stricken from existence the moment the voltage overwhelms their hearts, but because they’re generally sloppy with money and that last check was always going to bounce anyway. Not to mention […]
The Takes | Heather Keton
2016, 48″ x 48″, oil on canvas. Heather Keton has been painting since childhood, when she was gifted a class in landscape oil painting and realized that combining birch trees and fireworks makes people uncomfortable. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused on writing, […]
The Unfinished Eye | Stephen Kaplin
The Unfinished Eye Written and designed by STEPHEN KAPLIN, Based on artwork and texts by EVE KAPLIN. First performed at Arts at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, 1998. Direction and Puppet Design: STEPHEN KAPLIN Lighting, Sets and Sound: BILL BRADFORD Costumes: JANE CATHERINE SHAW Stage consists of two screens. Large Rear Projection […]
Heartsease | Peter Longofono
The chin is civil. Boring hair worms through a chuck, or doesn’t. Ingrown whiskers wrestle. The worth of a weevil depends. Inured evil, as an enterprise, shills. Even the upright magistrate curves through a telescope, which is his beaten wife. Indoors his tight glands, a boy’s hands cup an oblong […]
Lean Away
Review: ‘After Birth’ by Elisa Albert. In 2013, there were murmurs of a new feminist manifesto emboldening women across the nation, reviving a stalled second-wave feminism. You might have heard it whispered by the women leaving book club meetings, heard it from the lips of Sheryl Sandberg herself, heard it […]
From the Archives: “Phaethon Apparatus” | Mac Wellman
MAC WELLMAN’s recent work includes 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall of 2006 (and elsewhere more recently), and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the […]
Two Poems | Sean Munro
thralldom brain braid. of purple flower. she to the wickerwork. of fern. pine bark. hello you deaths. so brain beat. trusted lavender. to throb. she with sweat. her hours with chins. haircuts. triangle mouth out. peninsula and her one finger. on the leaf. ear to the ground. other in the […]
“All Colors Change”
Brian Russ is a photographer, musician, writer and teacher who has been living in Brooklyn for the past 11 years. He has played music in over 80 different venues in New York City, exhibited photos in several galleries over the years here and continues to teach middle children how to […]
No One to Miss | Travis Vick
She may remember how the air sounds, late in the morning, once a bird has stopped singing and gone away. She might consider her own stillness—or how the bedroom, in a way, has become empty. Her fingers, gathered together softly, are somewhat in the position of a hand holding a […]
Roland Flint | Robert Farrell
Excerpted from a longer work. Grant us that we’re Roland Flint and that we’re not; Yet who remembers Roland Flint? And who will Remember him tomorrow? Mark Vinz, it’s true, Marked Flint, remembered and was Roland Flint. But What was it he remembered? In A poem he sees himself as […]
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Thomas Gillaspy is a northern California photographer with an interest in urban minimalism. His photography has been featured in numerous magazines including the literary journals: Compose, DMQ Review and Citron Review.
Someone Someone Someone | Oliver Strand
Someone: I don’t remember how the yellow rods were positioned. Walking shadow. I had to be pulling on the wheels, one after another. Two points of lighter color on a black rectangle define the mouth of the curve. Two weights: one weight breathing, one weight returning to a pile of […]
That would be a chance to meet someone new | Adam Greenberg
Excerpted from a longer work. That is why, the distance eliminated, something one carries rotates around a radial axis in front of the chest, this along the exterior wall, disappearing out of sight I will bring her her bag, extracting in a way with my hand even amounts What that […]
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Kenneth Faith is currently pursuing a MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College after graduating from the College of Charleston with a degree in Studio Art in 2013.