Prelapsarian For Joshua My nephew is uncoiling a green garden hose to sew the spring together. He’s three, conductor and guardian of everything he sees: harmonica he plays, toy trains he never lets fall off the tracks. From this height it’s not a swift ...
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When You Are Fifteen You meet a boy that gives you reading assignments, leaf through Candide and Slaughterhouse Five and 1984, biographies of Morrison and Cobain and Clapton. When you scream at each other, it is erotic like climbing up into the rickety de ...
Landscape with Preterm Labor I thought my body a thick hearty thing, a big- horn sheep perched in a crag of rock, an elk fording a snowmelt river, a fat rattlesnake sunning on a dusty boulder. Today, you are ...
from Plague Nights Night 547 Silence pastures great wounds here. Aquinas is one of them. At the celestial threshold of movement a dignity, pretense. Pretend to spirit. To the memorial noon, o half- impoverishment. Silence parts the ruin, for you it seems ...
Contributor “From Birth to Bone” is from Sarah K. Lenz ’s forthcoming essay collection, What Will Outlast Me? (Unsolicited Press 2023). Her nonfiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, New Letters, The Fourth River, Pen Dust Radio, and elsewher ...
Contributor Nadalyn Gwendolyn Ismatu Bangura does indeed realize she has a very long name. They’re certain you can sound it out. Ismatu is a Sierra Leonean writer, ethnographer, and social worker based in Chicago, IL. She has an embarrassing number of hou ...
Never Not a Poet Alan Garrigan Friday, July 15, 2022 Video Essay Issue 162 Web Share Tweet ...
Contributor Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022) and Like Happiness (forthcoming with Celadon Books). A graduate of Middlebury College, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was a VONA/Voices fellow. ...
Contributor Bradley Trumpfheller is a trans writer and student. Their work has recently appeared in The Baffler, Black Warrior Review, Poetry, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers and MacDowell, an ...
Contributor Simon Parkin is an award-winning British journalist and author. A contributing writer for The New Yorker, he has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, New Statesmen, the BBC, and other publ ...
