After adolescence in Mid-western small towns, shopping malls mushroomed on razed prairies, cul-de-sacs absent of sidewalks, half […]
Kristina Marie Darling
– Vlade Divac (1989-2005) The dead ones, tired from life, know life is best: each pulse […]
Divac Villanelle by Michael Marberry
The first time my mother left me Mount St. Helens exploded. She crowded around a little grey […]
South Wichita Safeway by Micah Chatterton
Recent years have seen an ever-increasing preoccupation with the ownership of literary texts, a desire to claim everything […]
The Lyric “I” as a Conversation: On Collaborative Poetry ...
Let’s start with the subjunctive: If I were in charge of party favors at the Oscars and the […]
Declarative, Urgent, and Rare: Jon Thompson’s Landscape with Light
Ewa Chrusciel’s new book of poetry, contraband of hoopoe, asks its readers to do the work of not […]
contraband of hoopoe by Ewa Chrusciel
Elizabeth Arnold’s Life is a collection of light, bold, contemporary paeans to natural cycles and incidents involved with […]
Life by Elizabeth Arnold
Hello and happy summer! I’m thrilled to introduce Paul A. Christiansen’s review of Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering. It’s always […]
Editor’s Note
Gazing into the outside world often affords one a closer view of the self. In his essay collection, […]
Loitering by Charles D’Ambrosio
When art and pain collide, a perfectly complicated and beautiful book sometimes emerges. Such is Julia Cohen’s I […]
I WAS NOT BORN by Julia Cohen
Gregory Pardlo’s second book of poetry, Digest, asks us what it is to have a father, to be […]
Digest by Gregory Pardlo
Downhill, there’s a lullaby behind a low door. While rats make love in the garbage piles and […]