Adapt a naturalist conceit in which the central image is avian. That’s something I can’t do. […] The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Jessica BaranOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jessica Baran by Marlee Gaffey
In the half empty cab of the bus an old man rooted in the corner is trying […] Flow by Shamshad Abdullaev, translated by Alex CigaleOctober 14, 2017 in Translation tagged Alex Cigale / Shamshad Abdullaev by Marlee Gaffey
(Helen Frankenthaler, 1963) Never not liquid its deep blues map an alter-Atlantic, an unseen […] The Bay by Jennifer AtkinsonOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jennifer Atkinson by Marlee Gaffey
(Agnes Martin “The Rose”) is the work of turning of turning field to field as […] She Would Not Say Her Work by Jennifer AtkinsonOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jennifer Atkinson by Marlee Gaffey
In Kansas, I hold the baby to my chest in the hallway of a crappy motel. […] Broken Portrait by Chelsea B. DesAutelsOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Chelsea B. DesAutels by Marlee Gaffey
To think of the world as a series of doors, to consider not walking through. Everything […] A Biography of Women in the Sea: Nü Wa by ...October 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jennifer Cheng by Marlee Gaffey
Inside her dress, an envelope. Inside her dress, disembodied [ ]. Stitching of her girlish traces, maw-soaked […] A Biography of Women in the Sea: Snake Sisters by ...October 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jennifer Cheng by Marlee Gaffey
The constitution is pretty clear beyond the emissions test: follow the reports of who’s best in […] Close Encounters by Jessica BaranOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jessica Baran by Marlee Gaffey
Alternately dazzling, oppressive and nuts, getting rid of Rita made life hunky-dory. It mostly came down to that […] Plot for Film by Jessica BaranOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Jessica Baran by Marlee Gaffey
September, the white-washed paws of the pups, wrinkled, gravelly. The soft smoke of the trampled foliage doesn’t […] Little Animal by Shamshad Abdullaev, translated by Alex CigaleOctober 14, 2017 in Translation tagged Alex Cigale / Shamshad Abdullaev by Marlee Gaffey
Uncle Leyb’s nose looked almost like a fleshy potato, red-blue against his pale, still face, which appeared […] Uncle Leyb by Mikaelo Bronshten, translated by Sebastian SchulmanOctober 14, 2017 in Translation tagged Mikaelo Bronshtejn / Sebastian Schulman by Marlee Gaffey
To return to the changing light in the small room, trying to see a painting differently, […] Over time (after T.J. Clark on Poussin) by Martha RonkOctober 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Martha Ronk by Sarah Russell