Richard Fox: “Sometimes, these images ‘talk’ to one another, and my intuition ‘hears’ and responds to them in unknown and mysterious ways.”
I’ll just say it: Sheila wasn’t much to look at, and neither was her goddamn dog. I never knew anybody other than Sheila to name a dog after themselves. “Well, I ain’t got no kids, do I?” is how she explained it. Sheila was always going on about how that dog was purebred—how a person […]
When I recall my time with him, I remember mostly that the world was dry—the sun like a razor beam, the Earth various shades of brown, the blue smoke on the horizon—and that my actual life felt very far away. It was almost a dream state, real-feeling and yet not quite, a slur of time […]
Milkshake. Minor god. Because I own shares of camellias, I bring all grandmothers to my yard. There must be a tree with the hair of grandmothers—maybe the willow? Maybe bees weep in the hearts of peonies, their legs nectar-heavy. There is no room left on this planet for another sad human, but still, we make room for them. There […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Richard Fox, Kristina Jipson, Katie Duane, Kelli Russell Agodon, MICHAEL CHANG, Mickie Kennedy, John Liles, and more
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi Haymarket Books, 2022 Noor Hindi’s debut collection is a special prayer, Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow, that invites “those outside the door” (as she calls them) to “bear witness” (as the white woman on her thesis defense calls it) to the life of Palestinians, those who […]
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 […]
