The small setting sun, an iron sheet of pain It curls up into half-light, rolls as […] Sunset by Zheng Xiaoqiong translated by Jonathan Stalling and Xian ...January 14, 2014 in Poetry / Translation tagged Jonathan Stalling / Xian Liqiang / Zheng Xiaoqiong by Ryan Gunn
The aerial view looks like a bathtub filled with colored pencils. But the pencils are splintered. The […] FLOTSAM by June RockefellerJanuary 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged June Rockefeller by Sarah Russell
* * * For several years, Senior Prose Editor Eric Darton has been aiming to connect me with […] Turkish Journal, Part I: By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb by ...January 14, 2014 in Editor's Feature / Prose tagged Bronwyn Mills / Jessamyn Smyth by Ryan Gunn
These are people of “(ironically) tiger-striped couch,” of “knowing how people got to be the people […] The Incurable Habit: Jessamyn Smyth on Okla Elliott’s “The Boiling ...January 14, 2014 in Editor's Feature / Prose / Prose Open Contest tagged Jessamyn Smyth / Okla Elliott by Ryan Gunn
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. She’s the image you are but […] She’s the image you are but far more by Chad ...January 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Chad Parmenter by Ryan Gunn
Women grease a watermelon with Crisco. Men divide into teams, dive into […] Another Summer by Jennifer Luebbers LeonardJanuary 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Jennifer Leonard by Sarah Russell
The red-phase eft, in its land-based incarnation, dangled by its forelegs in a small, messy cobweb off […] The Spider Web by Mary ShartleJanuary 14, 2014 in Prose / Prose Open Contest tagged Mary Shartle by Sarah Russell
TQ2 Prose Open Runner-Up I. Parry Sound, Canada The first morning: three otters on the dock: dark, […] Nature: An Essay by Christine MarshallJanuary 14, 2014 in Prose / Prose Open Contest tagged Christine Marshall by Ryan Gunn
Kevin Bubriski Fes, Morocco May 23-30, 2013 iPhone camera AFTERWORD I hold in my hands […] Fes, Morocco: Kevin BubriskiJanuary 14, 2014 in Editor's Feature / Visual Art tagged Cassandra Cleghorn / Kevin Bubriski by Ryan Gunn
How should I answer her question, did you kill anyone overseas? I […] A Blind Date Asks About the War by Brandon CourtneyJanuary 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Brandon Courtney by Ryan Gunn
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. Sinematic—that’s what film becomes in motion. […] Sinematic by Chad ParmenterJanuary 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Chad Parmenter by Ryan Gunn
Barbed-wire fence. Pasture. Stand of water oaks. This was the path to the river. Sometimes chased, sometimes […] Portrait of my Brother as Indiana Jones by Amorak HueyJanuary 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Amorak Huey by Ryan Gunn