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You Whom They Border

October 9, 2020

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 said that time indicted horses … 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

The Rat Problem

September 11, 2020

Jackson Saul

The lady upstairs is yelling at her kids. I mean, really yelling. The high whine of these kids’ voices and the pitter-patter lightness of their footsteps suggest the oldest can’t be older than ten—or at least not … Continued

O.

September 9, 2020

Richie Hofmann

The pleasures of the streets, perfumed with hazelnuts and cheese, medieval rivers, edges reduced to ice. Of walking irregular stones, past the silent, frustrated dead, in black shoes with laces. As we pass, my eyes meet his (same sad longing) … Continued

Historic District

September 7, 2020

Richie Hofmann

With purpose, you pull up the blinds. Light enters the room like a feeling violating a man. Sitting up in a bed built for a husband and a wife, I think for a second nature has taken us … Continued

Review: Creatures Among Us by Rebecca Lilly

September 7, 2020

PK Eriksson

(Frankfurt, KY: Broadstone Books, 2019) There certainly is a need for fantasy in our culture. Fantasy novels, sci-fi novels, manga, anime, adult fantasy fiction and films, fan fiction — the list runs like a stream into an ever-growing groundswell of … Continued

A Report on Forbidden Beverages

September 4, 2020

Brian Evenson

For many years, I did not drink beer and then, suddenly, I did. Before that, before I drank beer, I drank wine. For many years when I was asked at a party, at a gathering, at an event, … Continued

The Therapist We Never Got Says, “Time Doesn’t Do Anything—You Have to Fill It”

September 2, 2020

Dujie Tahat

So here’s our firstborn. Another child, and another. Here’s a six pack of dark beer shoved through a basement window. Here’s the Montreal bistro I proposed in, that we returned to every year until we didn’t. Here’s the … Continued

Review: This Is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah

August 31, 2020

Meghan McGowan

(Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020) Sejal Shah and I have two things in common. We both grew up in the New York/New Jersey area and pursued writing in college. This is about the extent of the similarities between … Continued

Minor Neil

August 28, 2020

David Varno

They’ll be here soon. I’m not denying that fact. But knowing and accepting are not one and the same. I accept myself, sometimes. I’ll never be more than a fan, but that’s okay, because I’m a good fan. For example, … Continued

[For the first time…]

August 26, 2020

Khal Torabully

translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson for the castaways of the Ker Anna For the first time, we were naked. Who taught us to fall from the tree? What power had we wasted? To which blood founding our … Continued

[Pour la première fois…]

August 26, 2020

Khal Torabully

aux naufragés du Ker Anna Pour la première fois, nous étions nus. Qui nous apprit à tomber de l’arbre ? Quel pouvoir avions-nous perdu ? A quel sang édifiant les palabres ? Combien d’oiseaux seront éperdus au bastingage de … Continued

Review: SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker

August 24, 2020

Timothy Lindner

(Seattle, WA: Wave Books: 2019) Earlier this year, @KylePlantEmoji tweeted: Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don’t. As in, some people’s thoughts are like sentences they “hear,” and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and … Continued

The Philosophy Student

August 19, 2020

Tiziano Scarpa

Translated from Italian by Stiliana Milkova the philosophy student dreams she has insomnia her hair grows at night spilling from her bed even-numbered strands sprout into serpents’ heads odd-numbered strands splice into steel scissors serpents and scissors battle while … Continued

Review: Golden Gate Jumpers Society by Ross Wilcox

August 17, 2020

Cheryl Weaver-Amenta

(Brooklyn, NY: 7.13 Books, 2020) Over the last few months, our sense of reality has dramatically changed. The world first shifted with a global pandemic, followed by tremors of protest against police brutality and racial injustice which jolted many out … Continued

Once Upon an Ending

August 14, 2020

Shanna Merceron

Once upon a time, I wasn’t a good little girl. Momma only had a few rules for my sister, Jane, and me. Rule number one: Always have each other’s backs. Rule number two: Do our … Continued

Review: Million Dollar Red by Gleah Powers

August 10, 2020

Ann Anderson Evans

(Vine Leaves Press, 2019) Million Dollar Red is a Dickensian tale, a tough story about a tender girl. It is presented as a memoir though the first name of the author is Gleah and the protagonist’s name is Linda, but, … Continued

A Mother of Concern

August 7, 2020

Linda E. Keyes

Mary worked night shifts because of the babies. At night, when the lights were dimmed in the hospital nursery, she could hold and rock the newborns. During the hubbub of the day, when administrators roamed the halls … Continued

Heart Out

August 5, 2020

Leah Umansky

For Marina My friend tells me my courage is my vulnerability, that in my overthrow of self lies refinement. What part un-hindering & what part exchange? Is it courage that extends the detangling of days? Maybe so. … Continued

Review: Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado

August 3, 2020

Averi Long

(Pittsburgh, PA: Autumn House Press, 2019) The desert: a place of strange, spiked plants and long, sandy distances. Even today in the age of air conditioners and running water, it’s not exactly a place that welcomes human life. It is … Continued

Judith and Ahmed: A Story of Friendship

July 31, 2020

Mark Doten

You know what … I was proved fucking right. That’s what happened. People who disagreed with me were saying, ‘There she goes again.’ But I was proved fucking right.—Judith Miller [Chalabi] published three mathematics papers between 1973 and 1980, in … Continued

Dog Ears

July 29, 2020

Robert Farnsworth

Flouncing when she trots, Perked, cocked, flopped, Flattened, swiveled at Prompts of joy or itch Or curiosity, velvet Flaps opening on secret Zones of sound more Precious than what’s Hidden inside any silken Purse—awareness’s soft Synecdoches, alert just … Continued

Prepared Instruments

July 29, 2020

Robert Farnsworth

After V.W. & H.D.T. How I wish someone would draft These lines for me. Perhaps I could Revise, develop, finish them, but Then whom would I owe, and what Would be demanded? Someone Young, I suppose—amused or kind Or shrewd, … Continued

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