Grace and Ongoingness: Noelle Kocot’s Path Among the Forms
byLater, they’ll review that book, and I’ll laugh at the makeout party beginning. —Noelle Kocot, from “Socializing” Tom Snarsky: How…
Uncertain Harvest: A Review of Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy
byThere are many things that seem spookily prescient about reading Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy in the COVID age. There’s the title, which seems to…
Social [email protected]: Inaugural Issue
by“We knew another storm would come,” Congressman Lewis wrote in his powerful memoir Walking with the Wind. “And we would have to do it…
Sacrifice the Bread: An Interview with Leanna Petronella
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Our Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Leanna Petronella about childhood, the body as metaphor, fairy tales and myths, and the inspiration behind...
Keep the Question in Front of You: A Conversation with Vijay Seshadri on Spirituality, Consciousness and Poetry
byThough I close my laptop and go to walk the dog, I notice there’s something following me; all afternoon into the late evening. It’s…
To Know a Place: An Interview with Tess Taylor
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Tess Taylor about the importance of place, the sober realities of reacquainting oneself with home, and…
If Mother Braids a Waterfall
byWriting about oneself can prove to be more difficult than expected, especially when it extends into intimate details of one’s family and their history….
Inside a Crisis: A Review of Danger Days by Catherine Pierce and Requisite by Tanya Holtland
by“We are inside a crisis of planetary scale and so too is our grieving, or our anger, and our response…” —Tanya Holtland, preface to…
Transit
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Transit, read by Clare Collins Hogan She wanted a girl. She didn’t get one. That was a year ago now. The end of the...
Plunder
byAll writers at some point in their careers have been told to write what they know best, and often this includes, in some shape…
Of Hebrews and Haints: A Review of Sheree Renée Thomas’ Nine Bar Blues
byOne of the true glories of a well-executed short story collection is for the whole to greatly exceed the sum of its parts: Nine…
What if We Could
bybelieve in god, I meanreally believe, the way you believe in the personsitting next to you on the busso when he shifts positionsor spreads his…
On the Origin
byI find an old copy of Darwin’sOn the Origin of Speciesamong my father-in-law’sBibles and theology books,and my own laugh startles mein the empty house….
Haunting Work: A Review of Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of
byI finished reading Ghost Of when my grandmother first entered into hospice care. I was searching for a particular grammar of grief—one that knows…
The Society
bySister Lucia was on duty today which meant we could only play after we took careof the important affairs(worksheets, times tables, cursive tracing). So…
Capillos Ex Deo
byI am just shy of 30. My graying beard and balding head suggest otherwise. I won’t do a combover. Shave me naked. I’ll strut…
The Softness of Ecology is Conversing with the Chaos of the World
byThe first poem in Kathmandu, “When Rajiv was blown up,” opens: Before her belly would caressand press the bomb in her sari,she gave the…
#1 Hit Song
byIt’s time to write a hit song, and God is not happy.Why the loops? Why the endless repetition? he says,slamming the headphones down on…
Writing a Letter to Momma about my Visit to Progreso, Mexico
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The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. ...
These Are Our Headwaters: A Review of Michael Garrigan’s Robbing the Pillars
byWe often talk about books being shaped by the times in which they were written, but books are also shaped by the times in…