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 […]
Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic | Charles Holdefer
Jerry seemed a smart lad, but he was more interested in herbs and spices when he should be paying attention to poisons.
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. […]
Omissions | Lauren McGovern
June 22, 2020 Dear Lauren: We’re updating the school’s website and need a new faculty bio from you by August 19, since you’re moving into a new teaching position this September. Thank you for your attention in this matter. Sincerely, *** The Communications Team June 25, 2020 Dear Team: Here’s […]
Two Poems | Benjamin Krusling
Benjamin Krusling works in sound, language, and moving image. He is the author of the book GLARING (Wendy’s Subway, 2020) and a digital text-image project, i have too much to hide (Triple Canopy, 2021), and currently pursuing a PhD in English at CUNY Graduate Center.
For Hope | Suphil Lee Park
Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), and has recently won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in the […]
Two Poems | Lewis Freedman
Lewis Freedman is, in this instance, the name of a poet sitting at this desk in Tulsa at 10:53pm writing this bio. A book, I Want Something Other Than Time, was recently published under this name. There is something confusing about writing this. This name can’t properly separate or attach […]