Ashanti Anderson’s three poems presented here—”Self-Portrait as Overseer,” “Self Portrait in Blackface, and “Resignation” are from […]
Editors’ Selections
We found things in the woods during nature walks in Sally’s American Lit class in high school. Things […]
Go On, Then by Darcie Abbene
Jenny Grassl was raised in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems appeared […]
Attend the Crowning Head by Jenny Grassl
You were holding a roll of surgical tubing, had it coiled around your elbow & shoulder […]
The Scales by JP Grasser
The weather was good for a burial, chilly enough to make god seem present, wholly […]
Heavy Machinery by JP Grasser
I am black and black underneath, my pink lips painted the most hollerin’est red. Bowtie so […]
Self-Portrait in Blackface by Ashanti Anderson
Ashanti Anderson’s three poems presented here—”Self-Portrait as Overseer,” “Self Portrait in Blackface, and “Resignation” are from her forthcoming […]
An Introduction to Ashanti Anderson by Simone Muench
Imagine a ten-year-old with a whip. In films, it’s always a middle-aged man with a haggard […]
Self-Portrait as Overseer by Ashanti Anderson
The desert doesn’t know we exist: Robert Smith singing through the speakers of a night-lit pool […]
The Desert Doesn’t Know by Jessica Abughattas
After days of rain, wind howling swells of the Beaufort Sea onto the rocky shoreline with a spray […]
Waiting for the Sun by Brian Turner – curated and ...
Fresno, California. 1973. Not everyone gets a chance to watch their parents fall in love. I was six […]
A Few Examples from the Catalogue of Love by Brian ...
Together we are no one says the woman. Together we are anonymous. Can you, she says, […]