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 […]
America, you flexed your nuclear muscles in our direction 1,054 times over the length of my father’s short life. 1,054 catastrophic blooms shattering the desert floor, confounding the waters and the heavens. It took us years—decades even— to realize the full arc of our swoon before you, America. You buckled your own soldiers down in […]
GENEVIEVE ABRAVANEL’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in The Missouri Review, American Short Fiction, North American Review, The Normal School, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. JEANETTE BEEBE’s poems have appeared in Salamander, Sixth Finch, Chattahoochee Review, Juked, Bayou Magazine, New South, and elsewhere. She was named a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, […]
Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press). In 2018, Atefat-Peckham was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet. His work has recently appeared in the […]
Marathons echo across decades and centuries in Noé Álvarez’s debut book Spirit Run. He tells the story of the 6,000-mile marathon he undertook at age 19 with Peace and Dignity Journeys (PDJ) — a First Nations/Native American movement in which participants run across North America to rekindle connections with their cultures, communities, and homelands. Álvarez interweaves […]
“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, […]
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of Only More So (Salmon). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, and CantoMundo. Kelli Russell Agodon’s most recent book, Hourglass Museum, was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Poetry Prize. Her second book, Letters from the Emily […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Matthew McDade, Maureen Langloss, Traci Brimhall, Kwame Dawes, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Rainie Oet, Zach Linge, Leila Chatti, and many more.
This project was supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Less what things need. !10!More a sobbing, helpless chyme of flickering, passerine want, in gyre, !10!tornadic, ribboning the resinous cedar, mythic in winter’s gamboge sun, !10!gilt, yet also monastic, in your way. Your hand the temple my body, !10!a flock, moves on. A noise like life, first thought put inside us, !10!the soul, perhaps, calm […]
Abdul Ali is the author of Trouble Sleeping, a 2014 winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize selected by Fanny Howe. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gathering of Tribes, Plume, Poet Lore, and the recent anthology Resisting Arrest. Ali has been honored with two Literature fellowships from the DC Commission on the […]
The night Ying Kit saw his first real on-screen kiss he decided to change his name. His parents weren’t home yet. In the dark kitchen the TV lit him blue as a ghost, as if Dawson and Joey could sense him watching. In his pocket he felt the letter he wanted but didn’t want to […]
Ying Kit smelled like the inside of his grandmother’s silk jacket, like the dark potions his parents stored in the kitchen cabinet, labeled with roosters or bearded men. He didn’t know until the other boys at school asked him why he smelled like mothballs. On the Internet they looked like eyeballs with their irises erased. […]
The manatee is not thinking About the meaning of his blubbering Or the odd shake making the old Man’s pants disconnect in the undertow. What gossip should this kelp allow? The crab goes on whistling as the cloud Transforms into a meat cleaver. A seagull dives on the lever And the pier erupts into confetti. […]
All day dozers mine my life. The drab edge of a quarry gifts the highway new brilliance, vacant blacktop always appearing dead and lonely on drives home, dumb flame lilting bright on western horizon. No one thinks to blink when methane eternal flares long as Christ, in kids’ nostrils, in my brain juice when Lisa […]
The Non/Fiction Collection Prize is awarded annually to a book-length collection of short stories, essays, or a combination of the two. The prize (which in previous iterations was known as the Sandstone Prize and The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction) carries a cash award of $1500 and publication with The Ohio State University […]
August Kleinzahler. The Hotel Oneira. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013. 112 pp. $24.00, hardcover; $15.00, paperback; e-Book, $9.99. August Kleinzahler’s most recent collection of poetry, The Hotel Oneira, is saturated with images of weather. More particularly, it is saturated with the often discordant prosody of storms and the audial images created through reverberations in the lulling […]
A doe leaping in and out of her body. Fields like a dark throat. We like how we don’t exist before we do, like animals, and this is important to remember. A man unfolds beneath the sea and islands bloom in his veins. The horizon delineates itself. Maybe it’s time to try being less sarcastic […]
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