A piece of cake with her tooth marks on it lies sad and dry on a plate […] Tooth Marks by Trang The Hy, translated by Martha Collins ...October 14, 2014 in Poetry / Translation tagged Martha Collins / Nguyen Ba Chung / Trang The Hy by Sarah Russell
My drink of choice is wrath, it goes down like fire, like medicinal wine, like moonshine. […] Elegy for the Drowned by Crystal CondakesOctober 14, 2014 in TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Crystal Condakes by Marlee Gaffey
we are long passed the days of the switch. the detective was thankful and heartbroken about this, […] the boy detective undergoes corporeal punishment by sam saxOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged sam sax by admin
—so I called it, when I talked of reading and writing; of my doubt about assumed […] Piety by Elizabeth HuttonOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Elizabeth Hutton by Marlee Gaffey
for Paco Seventeen years on this earth; eight hours in the air. Do you need […] Mr. Green by Marta Aponte Alsina, translated by Jeremy OsnerOctober 14, 2014 in Prose / Translation tagged Jeremy Osner / Marta Aponte Alsina by Sarah Russell
The trees, a madness of white & wind, we, a madness of sweat & rope, ropes of […] Song with a Lyric from Allen Ginsberg by Chen ChenOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Chen Chen by Marlee Gaffey
he’s snapped awake and he’s drowning. the boy left behind, a vulgar warmth gathered around his sex, […] the boy detective’s wet dream by sam saxOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged sam sax by admin
A stranger in a raincoat comes to the city of drought (In the sun his water-country accent is […] Mute Back by Hai Zi, translated by Ye ChunOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / Translation tagged Hai Zi / Ye Chun by Sarah Russell
Let go of your old life. The Friday evenings on the patio, the weddings, first days at […] The Next Life by Mark WagenaarOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Mark Wagenaar by admin
It is early and I have no one to trust. The sun wrestles wildly about me, […] The Act of Killing by Jane WongOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Jane Wong by Marlee Gaffey
The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, lesson — are prone to blend in […] The Marrow and the Harvest: Reflections on Allen Grossman’s Bitter ...October 14, 2014 in Editor's Feature / Prose tagged Andrea Applebee by Sarah Russell
There was a word I was taught not to say in the gym, or on the basketball […] Ode to the Unsayable by Keith LeonardOctober 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Keith Leonard by Marlee Gaffey