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Eat Shit, Horseface

November 23, 2020

TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY DAVID BRUNSON When I think of freedom I think of Isla, my mare, And I think of a photo of my grandmother, Gorgeous at seventeen. She remembers, in those days, When a man told her … Continued

Patria o muerte— ¡Venceremos!

November 23, 2020

Sara Emanuel Viloria

TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY DAVID BRUNSON I joined the socialist party at 16. That is I lived through the flowering of a failed state before losing my virginity. We watered the votes with our voices, The revolution was our … Continued

The Long Run

November 20, 2020

Halimah Marcus

Miranda awoke to an empty house—blankets flat beside her, air cold and breathless. Downstairs, the sheets Lucas had used were piled neatly on the couch, a note at their center: Next time, come to the city! She found … Continued

Mother Static

November 18, 2020

Rachael Fowler

I gained twenty pounds this year from eating strictly bananas and avocados. My thighs dimple in the bathtub, and a sheen of moisture coats the mauve and powder-blue octagonal tiles beside me. The bathwater is lukewarm now. The … Continued

Review: They Say Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard

November 16, 2020

Briana McDonald

Translated from French by Adriana Hunter (New York: Other Press, 2020) Written in poetic, gorgeously sparse prose, Pauline Delabroy-Allard’s debut novel, They Say Sarah, captures the intensity of two women’s violent and obsessive love affair. Structured in two parts, … Continued

Penelope

November 13, 2020

Amina Gautier

Weave a new tale for the clever queen. By day she weaves the shroud; by night she … Continued

Dominion and Volume

November 11, 2020

Julie Hanson

He crows to prepare our yards with his presence, and he orders the space between us. He stands it up straight. Inside his own sound, he is the world itself, not of it. He populates our yards with … Continued

“Hawks Do Not Share”

November 11, 2020

Minna Zallman Proctor

Ernest Hemingway met F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in 1925 when they were all living in Paris. The Great Gatsby had just come out and, according to Fitzgerald, “was not selling well but had very fine reviews.” Hemingway pursued the … Continued

Cyclones

November 10, 2020

Bart Schaneman

That night, as Sam slept, Daisy snuck out and drove out of town, the sky clear, the moon half-empty. Ahead of her the tail lights of a semi-trailer. She watched for the gleam of green deer eyes on the shoulder. … Continued

Review: Garden By The Sea by Mercé Rodoreda

November 2, 2020

Elizabeth Jaeger

Translated from Catalan Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2020) The rich have no concern for the poor. Or rather they live in their gilded mansions, eating expensive food, buying designer clothes, and traveling to exotic places, while … Continued

Review: The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano

October 26, 2020

Heather Lang

(Shropshire, EN: Platypus Press, 2020) I discovered Joseph Fasano, author of the new novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, as a poet. A few years back, I read some of his verse, and more recently I heard him … Continued

Be Yourselves ||| The Austin Review

October 22, 2020

Vincent Scarpa

It’s my daughter’s tenth birthday, and Montpellier the rattlesnake is telling her to kill me again. This is what she screams from the living room as I prepare her favorite blueberry pancakes for lunch. She is trying to … Continued

Joke

October 20, 2020

Elizabeth O'Brien

When I mention a crush I have on some boy I’ll forget in three weeks’ time or never, call it love, Scuba, my closest friend, rolls his eyes, shoots back Did you pee on him so he’s marked as … Continued

Review: The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb

October 19, 2020

Jaclyn Youhana Garver

(Sefton Park, Australia: Everytime Press) She had inky black skin with matching pupils that seemed to take up her entire eye. Her voice – like the devil. Her walk – unbalanced. Like her body it felt foreign. Clearly, to Davon … Continued

The Prophecy

October 18, 2020

Cyn Grace Sylvie

Holding my death in his mouth I’m reminded of a cat Snapping a canary up All blood and blonde feathers and grey fur Tiny beak and talons no match against that Merciless beast Poor creature I have arrived here And … Continued

My Exes’ Exes from The Atticus Review

October 16, 2020

Kate Axelrod

Mike Ashley’s birthday was on April 20th, the same day as Hitler’s and Columbine and obviously four-twenty, which you observed like a national holiday. Her mother’s name was Marilyn and her family lived on Marilyn Place. Ashley was a … Continued

A Poem to Behemoth

October 15, 2020

Mario Alejandro Ariza

FOR ALL FORMS OF POWER ARE FORMS OF VIOLENCE AMONG MEN. —MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA I gotta get my mind off the pulsing tightness in my chest so my psychiatrist has asked me to think on … Continued

Novoandina

October 13, 2020

Lisa Allen Ortiz

My children stopped eating when we moved to this country. Their sandwiches come home untouched in their sacks, whole apples, whole crackers, un-nibbled pieces of cheese. Breakfast, they refuse fruit, toast, yogurt. They sip dew-beads of water from … Continued

Review: Agnostic by Christopher Buckley

October 12, 2020

Lisa Grgas

(Spokane, Washington: Lynx House Press, 2019) Already it is mid-July, four months into a global pandemic with no end in sight. From my fifth-floor balcony, I can see Freedom Tower. The infection rate in Hoboken remains uncharacteristically low for the … Continued

Failed Essay on Shapes

October 11, 2020

Elisa Gonzalez

Mother tells Girl, who chews the word like bubble gum. Or, newly toothed, Girl really chews an elephant’s helping of gum. More interested in blowing a bubble than in the names of what she can see. … Continued

Unlike nostos, algo is unspecified.

October 10, 2020

Mónica de la Torre

nunca sé por dónde empezar, así que decido hacerlo al comerme una fresa incontable la cantidad de semillas can you say I’m of two minds? yo diría que tengo ideas encontradas lo cual abre dos posibilidades: que se … Continued

You Whom They Border

October 9, 2020

Gabriel Dozal

you border crosser in this simulation you constantly slip and call one border by the other’s name the names aren’t straight inside of you and you conflate one with two because you still yearn for another border … Continued

You, Amateur Interpreter

October 8, 2020

Rosa Alcalá

You would have told yourself as your mother sat in the dentist’s chair, had you known who Wittgenstein was then, “I have to imagine pain which I do not feel on the model of the pain which I do … Continued

Anniversary

October 6, 2020

Paul-Victor Winters

I haunt you because I love you. You are constantly surprised by this. I am made of papier-mâché. You have dreamt of this before, a serious matter. You delight in torment. We were made for this. I … Continued

Review: Silvina Ocampo’s Forgotten Journey and The Promise

October 5, 2020

Erik Noonan

(San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2019) Forgotten Journey, Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan The Promise, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell There’s a peculiar imbalance between Forgotten Journey and The Promise, the first … Continued

Review: The Nail in the Tree by Carol Ann Davis

September 28, 2020

Hugh Martin

(North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2020) One night after three am, Carol Ann Davis holds her sleeping seven-year-old boy, Luke, as he shutters and mumbles from night terrors, “My boy wakes repeating I don’t know I don’t know.” After he … Continued

Review: All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser

September 21, 2020

Lisa Grgas

(Kingston, WA, Two Sylvias Press, 2019) The clusterfuck that is the year 2020 continues, unabated, and I again am reaching for poetry. I suppose poetry is a de facto litmus test for my fractured attention. If I can read a … Continued

‘Mysteries of Small Houses’

September 18, 2020

Cassandra Lee

To put off doing what I need to, I plan a trip to Detroit with my mom. I spend hours looking at every Airbnb in the city, thinking of all the empty houses. There’s the ones that burned … Continued

Hearses

September 16, 2020

Brian Tierney

A professor once wrote me that to write of fruit or flowers or dreams, no matter how deftly, is the lowest form of metaphor, after processions. Years later, on the subject again, she that time indicted horses as … Continued

Review: boysgirls by Katie Farris

September 14, 2020

Juliana Converse

(North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2019) You don’t so much open this book as you step into it. In this pocket-size creation from Tupelo Press, featuring the arresting illustrations of Lavinia Hanachiuc, Katie Farris seduces us into an uncanny dimension … Continued

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