Poetry
Alan C Pelaez Lopez
before the crossing1 our family could understand the whispers of the water2. we bathed our cuerpos morenos as if we we were holy […]
Feature
Work by Amie Zimmerman plus a conversation with Amie and KMA Sullivan
Amie Zimmerman lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthing, in Sixth Finch, DIAGRAM, Salt Hill, Puerto del Sol, and BathHouse Journal, among others. She has two chapbooks, Oyster (REALITY BEACH, [...]
Poetry
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Sanam Sheriff
& the nozzle is mouth enough,
& the engine cuts like a fine blade
sharpening the redwoods
into a funeral of hands, grasping […] -
Patrick Williams
Never pick a fight with anyone
who still buys blank media in bulk.Remember the bliss of auto-reverse, […]
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Dana Koster
Summer afternoons, we make a game
of collecting empty shellsspit from a shotgun chamber: silver […]
Essay
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Talking to Ed about The Big Book of Exit Strategies
I see all the tiny interventions – the gun points, but doesn’t fire, the woman chokes but doesn’t die, the chain of the poem loops dangerously around her neck. What does it mean to survive? […]
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Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
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Adam Hamze
i have seen my lifeless body. it has its own name that sounds nothing like mine. it lives in the bathroom stall of some restaurant, bloody & left behind. in the ditch down the street from the university, rain falling on its silence. […]
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Jukebox
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Sleeping Naked With “Just a Friend”: Examining the Line Between Relationships, Friendships, and Fuckingships
by Hari Ziyad
A friend asked if he could sleep naked in bed with me. A few days before, I lay naked in the arms of another man—a friend too, perhaps my best, but a lover first, I thought. […] -
The Spectacle of Black Death: Remembering Our Killed or Rekindling Their Murders? Part 2
