Molly Lay: “My current work is a call for viewers to look again. I hope to allow for small things to speak loudly. Through both daily life and habitual walks, I have been profoundly impacted by the curious and intimate objects the world holds. My desire is for viewers to be enticed by the world once again through a simple act of attention.”
Mama passed away in December. We held the funeral on a Wednesday because her life left no beginning or end, only a hollow middle like the bellies of her ceramic cooking pots or the concert hall before an empty recital. Of the forty-four years she lived, Mama sheltered dark brilliance inside her voice, the unwavering […]
When I was a child, I learned the days of the months by making two fists and tapping my knuckles left to right: the mountains are thirty-one days, valleys are less. I still find this incredible, every year captured within the terrain of my hands. In the very bones of my body, a calendar. thirty-one: […]
after Cathy Park Hong Exhibit A: If one looks close enough, it can be determined that the two of them are holding hands. Their fingers link together, resting on the console. A water bottle shifts its weight in the cupholder beside them, leaning from one side to the other whenever the road curves. Exhibit B: […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Molly Lay, Serrina Zou, Jessica Hudson, Tara Ballard, Rob Macaisa Colgate, & JeFF Stumpo.
What struck me first were the ways of exiting — via bird, via memory, via magic. Brent Ameneyro’s speakers are all knowing and all nostalgia. Producing not the sheen of romantic recall but the cleverness of reconstruction. In Ameneyro’s debut, A Face Out of Clay, there is no questioning, but lingering visitations. Portraits of loved […]
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 […]
