Our current issue features fiction, poetry, and artwork from: Beatriu Delaveda, Dave Housley, Leanna Petronella, Chen Chen, Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow, Gabrielle Bates, and more.
Miller is sure she has been hiding the salt from him. He looks in the cabinet where she keeps the spices, rechecks the kitchen table and the magnetic shelf thing that sticks to the refrigerator where they used to put the hot sauces when he could still eat hot sauces. Nothing. He tries his readers […]
José de Diego y Martinez (1866-1918) — Georgina Blanes Mangual (1880-1982) I keep a coin on my desk of José de Diego. The coin, which commemorates the centennial of his birth, is embossed with his face. I rub my thumb over his raised features like a worry stone. Eventually, a gold coppery color starts to […]
You cried & rode the back of a question till the crying rode you Rode you & rode till the sun had your face & so shone right through the trees (trunks n all) sun through trees sun through trees sun through trees It was terrible there was no shade no picnic blankets spread beneath no fruit eaten absentmindedly while reading no reading under any tree neither […]
Our current issue features fiction, poetry, and artwork from: Beatriu Delaveda, Dave Housley, Leanna Petronella, Chen Chen, Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow, Gabrielle Bates, and more.
In her already sold-out debut poetry collection, Sarah Ghazal Ali names and renames the places where womanhood, faith, and danger collide. Theophanies, from the word meaning “visible manifestation of God to humankind,” are embodied in these poems through stunning meditations on women from the scriptures. “A name / is a condition meant to last, / […]
The particular landscape of Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ first collection, Ghost Pains, recalls echoes of the “New Aesthetic,” a term coined back in 2012 to describe the leakage of the digital realm into the physical world. Characters point their phones at the sky, “as if to image-search the constellations,” travel by way of reading reviews on […]