Robert Jones, Jr. is the author of The New York Times Bestselling novel, The Prophets, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction and has been translated into nineteen languages. He was born and raised in New York City and received his BFA in creative writing […]
A Visitor Comes to Rondo | Debra Stone
In the backyard of 841 Rondo Avenue, the barbecue cloud floated above them, wrapped around the house like Grandma Essie’s arms. As usual, Grandpa Joe’s stubby brown cigar, clamped tight between his lips, rested in the corner of his mouth. In one hand, a sweating bottle of Grain Belt Beer. In […]
Missoula Stop-gap | Chris Potter
Two blue hiking poles stood upright in the snow. Two stories up, dark hair spilled over the balcony. The apartment complex looked deserted, yet there he was. “You came back!” Cash called down to me. “I had no choice. They closed the campgrounds.” “Want to unload the truck?” “No. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Abscission | Jill McCabe Johnson
Suffocation rarely starts in a panic. Sometimes it begins in a drowsy state of not-knowing, the air warm and dense. Do something productive. Get out of the house. I grabbed the macaroni pan, went behind the barn, plucked wild blackberries till the pan brimmed.
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, […]
Still Life with Bottle | Anne Colwell
For you, James. In graduate school, we’d drink the Spanish Rioja, then you’d put a red candle in the empty bottle as we drank the next. Hunched over the kitchen table in the basement apartment, we watched the red wax slide down the green curves, pool on the cloth and […]
ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff) | India Lena González
India Lena González is a poet and educator. She received her BA from Columbia University, where she graduated with honors, and her MFA from NYU. A two-time National Poetry Series finalist and 2021 BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize semi-finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and […]
Their Names | Kyoko Uchida
Kyoko Uchida’s poetry, prose, and translations have been published in journals including Boston Review, the Georgia Review, Nimrod International Journal, and Prairie Schooner, as well as publications in Australia and France. Her poetry collection Elsewhere was published in 2012 by Texas Tech University Press. She lives in Brooklyn and works for a nonprofit organization.
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.
Pangani | Michael Don
Tomorrow will be one week since the mall attack. Our roommates are out dancing. They’re younger than us, unmarried, work nine to five, and have been in Nairobi over a year. They live in large rooms featuring wood floors and built-in dressers. They lost a friend in the attack. Another […]
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 […]
Portrait of a Scar | Sylee Gore
Sylee Gore is writing on new uses of photography in poetry at the University of Oxford, where she is poetry editor of the Oxford Review of Books. She was jointly awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize in 2020, and her chapbook, Even Still, was published by Sampson Low of […]
Two Poems | Cody Tieman
Cody Tieman is a queer writer, cat dad, and poet based in Columbus, Ohio. He studied English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Denison University and is headed to Miami University for an MFA in Creative Writing in the fall. His work can be found in The Allegheny Review, Exile […]
Love, Like in the Movies | Darius Stewart
I’ve been thinking about my first adolescent crush, who he might’ve been among the rough-neck, drug-dealing fuckboys posted on street corners like traffic signs in the Lonsdale projects where I grew up, an older blackboy dropped out of high school who kept a low profile with his crew in the […]
Two Poems | zakia henderson-brown
zakia henderson-brown is the author of What Kind of Omen Am I, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Cate Marvin. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, was a Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, and has received additional fellowships and support from the Fine […]
To Clara Hawwa (1936–2022) | Kaleem Hawa
Kaleem Hawa writes about art, film, and literature. Jon Perry Davis is an outsider artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn. He currently focuses on painting, drawing, and songwriting. Although he does not consider himself an overtly depressive or morose individual, his work often depicts scenes of chaos and despair. […]