“Being in a human body calls for rapture. Movement calls for community,” writes Yanara Friedland in a […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2015

Downhill, there’s a lullaby behind a low door. While rats make love in the garbage piles and […]
Felicitas by Margo Berdeshevsky
The Journey For Maxime du Camp I When we were […]
The Journey (I, III, IV, V, VI, VII) by Charles ...

Gratitude is an action. Giving thanks. When someone arrives with a bottle of wine, we look […]
Gratitude by Alphonso Lingis
Leaving always breaks something, Justine reminds herself, as she sets out from New York City on […]
Chapter One of The Map Tracer, a novel by ...
About a year and a half ago, a writer friend challenged me thus: “I want to see […]
Introduction to The Map Tracer by Denise Milstein
One ancient night, blue-black across a lazy stalk of horizon, a moon was kidnapped and replaced […]
Mythos by Linda Cooper
In late September, the ground he picked out warm yet, the boy lay down. His human days, […]
Taken To The Soil by Beth Ruscio
No one notices the dead crow alongside the road, soft […]
Crow Funeral by Kate Hanson Foster
Comes whole and clear into the eye the sine curve of an upright pigeon sat like […]
Brood Nest in Traffic Cone by Mary Elizabeth Parker
I recently returned from Athens, Greece—a place I encountered first as a student ten years ago, […]
Pilgrim’s Reprise: On the Gift of Self-Possession by Andrea Applebee
He has seen the palm trees of his plaza almost at dawn or when the shadow falls […]