Family of Origin Content Warning Detailed descriptions of a father’s brutality. Graphic images of a boy, dreaming about food at night, his stolen transistor radio spilling James Brown’s good, good lovin over his pillow. This poem may unfold, in detail, a ...
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Contributor Shawn R. Jones is the co-owner of Tailored Tutoring LLC and Kumbaya Academy, Inc. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Womb Rain and A Hole to Breathe. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Obsidian, TriQuarterly, R ...
El Silencio Do you hear it? That’s the sound of Antonio falling from the bridge. Silencio. Antonio lived for the silence. The expectant silence of the Maestranza bullring. Just two years ago, Antonio silenced the crowd. The gold embroidery on his suit o ...
Child Match (Foster Care) / The Kids I Never Met This morning, I step outside to pick strawberries, no coat. That’s not a good idea, my whole family tells me, one by one, through a half-open door. I’m trying to convince myself that someone is stirring mi ...
Contributor Deborah Bernhardt is the author of Echolalia (Four Way Books) and Driftology (New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM). Share Tweet ...
Contributor Deborah Bernhardt is the author of Echolalia (Four Way Books) and Driftology (New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM). Contributions Issue 161 Winter/Spring 2022 Saturday, January 15, 2022 Poetry Chasing Deborah Bernhardt Poetry Emperor Deborah Bernhardt ...
Chasing after Robert Creeley Bitten night spilling sharps. Lowing clouds eye the Pinelawns of dead influences to me. I’ll never live in a house with a woman who writes under an uneasingly settling sun. Contrapuntal outruns cannons. Darkness thousa ...
Ridden All Night I had been ridden all night and woke up wet and intemperate and walked out because of the economy and back without a single piece of fruit or one end of a halter around a chestnut mare. Spit and hiss from the electrical, although when the ...
Contributor Stella Wong is the author of SPOOKS, winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, and AMERICAN ZERO, selected for the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize by Danez Smith. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wong ’s ...
Contributor Kalani Pickhart is the author of I Will Die in a Foreign Land. She currently lives and writes in Phoenix, Arizona. Contributions Issue 161 Winter/Spring 2022 Saturday, January 15, 2022 Fiction Propinquity Kalani Pickhart Share Tweet ...
