But I’m the Only One
who’d walk across a fire for you, growled Melissa. That song blared out from all four of our bedrooms’ tape decks, often simultaneously, as if that song was the only one we all loved, the only one we … Continued
Women's Studies
Forgot About His Mother
Translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk She was dying in the basement, on sacks of coal, crying for water, crying for her son, no one was there. The son forgot about his mother, the son was cleaning … Continued
[If the rain is everywhere]
If the rain is everywhere and it is we will soon be taking to the boats and carrying with us only our most precious and lightest things: the birds, in pairs or in flocks, two or … Continued
A Review of Sister Golden Hair by Darcy Steinke
(Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2014) Over the last several months, it seems, the internet has been exploding with issues about women’s health and well-being, issues of inequality, issues of gendered violence. There was a month in the summer when … Continued