We’re thrilled to present a compilation of artwork from Federico Federici.
Although Madeleine de Scudéry mapped Tenderness in the 17th century, it wasn’t until the 1840s that explorers seriously attempted to map a woman’s heart. Atlases were being updated monthly in those days. There were redrawn maps of the earth. The sea. Stars. Bones. The lungs of the nation expanded, ribs cracking, Mexico elbowed aside. Texas […]
On St. Patrick’s Day in 1994, the vice principal of my school came and pulled me out of the kindergarten green food party to talk to the principal in her office. My sister Kaitlin and I sat in the uncomfortable leather chairs across from Sister Elizabeth’s desk as she blinked back tears. “Your father […]
In the dark screening, a play of hands, your fingers. Blossoms in his jeans. !50!▪ Holy water: what river: our shared bed. Blessing of your boyhood sleep. !50!▪ The backstreet behind the theater will do. Broken bricks. Bruised sky. His face. !50!▪ Seven missed calls. A voice message you erase. A man stirring in your […]
Art Feature Asemic Texts Federico Federici Fiction Sentimental Cartography Laura O’Gorman Schwartz The Lovelorn Gianna Ward-Vetrano Nonfiction The Body Remembers Emily O’Neill Dear Sears Guy Choate Poetry Chibi Saddiq Dzukogi Bad Lover Billy-Ray Belcourt Dangerous Things Krysten Hill That Which We Hide J. David Lamb’s Machinery Augusta Funk abandoned image Mackenzie Kozak Balter Keith Leonard […]
Chet’la Sebree’s Mistress is a stunning debut that features a series of persona poems written in the voice of Sally Hemings. Sebree brings critical fabulation into the poetic discourse by constructing these poems using both historical record and imagined interiority. Throughout the collection, Hemings reckons with her past and sits in conversation with contemporary black […]
“Throughout history, angry women have been called harpies, bitches, witches, and whores,” Lilly Dancyger writes in the introduction of her new anthology, Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger. Written by a diverse group of angry women, the twenty-two essays in Burn It Down confront the long history of women accused of being dramatic, hysterical, […]
