“The implied “we” is all of us- humans as well as the entire animal kingdom, plants, the earth. All of us are connected on a biological level as well as cosmically, and depending on your beliefs, there can be a spiritual connection as well.”
Read our interview with our featured artist, Amy Guidry.
On our first day at Glacier, we were followed for our first half mile of the trail by a man who yelled “Hey bear!” over and over. He caught up to us when Christine stopped to tie her shoe, so close he almost touched my elbow. “I need to tell you ladies,” he said, […]
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 […]
We watch the sun move across the water like the tinkle of chimes. The trees are up next— they try to one-up the water. Color is moderating the event. I start a betting pool. You place twelve to one odds on the jasmine plant on our balcony. It’s had a strong first season. I’m thinking of […]
Our latest print issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Rajiv Mohabir, jason b. crawford, Janée J. Baugher, Rocko Foltz, Kelsey Stewart, Henry Sodergren, Anna Smetanenko, and others.
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 […]
