I am the fable with a mouth… This line from “Ballad for Kissing Beneath the Tawdry Fireworks” encapsulates […]
Kristina Marie Darling
A choice: the castle, the chapel, or else the exploded gunpowder manufactory... What happens when the space […]
Dark Archive: On G.C. Waldrep’s Testament & its Sources
With the sophistication of its dialectical movement, the gravitas of its ethical appeal, and the mercy of its […]
A Noncommittal Engagement: Citizen by Claudia Rankine
In 2014, Octopus Books published an anthology of work by poet Wong May, whose 1969 collection, A Bad […]
Picasso’s Tears by Wong May
oh deer, i am sorry for your roadside funeral—speeding procession of shock & pity we wonder how […]
roadkill by t’ai freedom ford
the child-snow listens, (enclaved) ungirds its mission posture fever-dream of anemone, radio fosse/foundry the […]
the child-snow (2) by G.C. Waldrep
Today let me give you crumbles weeping (v.) sprig of wounds poured from the spine of my […]
Daily Bread by Christina D. Rodriguez
both granny and papa, or at least the dust of what’s left of them, lie in unmarked […]
ancestors by t’ai freedom ford
Clara Changxin Fang was born in Shanghai, China and immigrated to the United States when […]
The Night My Mother Left Me for America by Clara ...
your eye / underthreatens radiant osprey, fire-hasp yarrow blooming yet tenderly, at the summit […]
site fidelity by G.C. Waldrep
– Rik Smits (1988-2000) For instance, Indiana is a surprisingly strange state. People do not […]
The Dunkin’ Dutch Haibun by Michael Marberry
– Shaquille O’Neal (1992-2011) Pluto is not a planet, but I am. The story of […]