Gratitude is an action. Giving thanks. When someone arrives with a bottle of wine, we look […]
Kristina Marie Darling
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
Eva Heisler is a Maryland-born poet and art critic currently based near Heidelberg, Germany. Her poems have been […]
To Experience Myself as Foreign: An Interview with Eva Heisler ...
How many times have you had to say goodbye? In New York City alone, while it seems hard […]
DEPARTURES (& Coming Home) by Bronwyn Mills
Santiago, Galicia The roads back then were not asphalt. James miraculously floated there, in a […]
From Pilgrimage: Das Bild verwaister Welten by Yanara Friedland
I am in my aunt Simin’s kitchen in Mashad and we are cooking lavoshac, the original […]
The Color of the Bricks by Farnaz Fatemi
The lull before the start was her favorite part of the race. She craved, she supposed, the […]
The Longest Journey by BJ Atwood-Fukuda
1. Game: rest a square of lumber on the round exterior of a log and swing at […]
The White City by Kate Partridge
It is enough to say there has been no carcass I’ve ever stumbled upon whose gape did […]
a dissection of the heart in which something has gone ...
in-an-i-mate: (adj) lifeless; dull The fawn is curled at the base of a papier-mâché tree, in a […]
Natural History, a lyric essay by M. J. Gette
All too often, contemporary works of fiction explore autobiographical subject matter with precision and wit, yet fail to […]
Anxiety, Projection, & the Female Psyche: Four Recent Titles ...
The intergenre poetic text Ohio Railroads, by C.S. Giscombe, is a long poem in essay form split into […]