Ashanti Anderson’s three poems presented here—”Self-Portrait as Overseer,” “Self Portrait in Blackface, and “Resignation” are from her forthcoming […]
Editors’ Selections
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, […]
Pandemic (Reprise) by Nils Michals
Such were skirts in college. Or, at least, Picasso paintings. So I got a job. The […]
Short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the ...
She says, “If I leave before you, darling Don’t you waste me in the ground.” —Iron & Wine […]
All Our Lazy Sundays by Brian Turner – curated and ...
I loved the lie I loved lying next to the winter I lived beside the […]
Love Lyric by Jessica Abughattas – curated and introduced by ...
Everyone was worried and looking at everybody else in a new way. Some tabulated their hand-wringing […]
Pandemic by Nils Michals
A man took a hammer to Michelangelo’s Pieta, breaking Mary’s nose in three, fragmenting her fingers, leaving […]
Restorations by Rebecca Morgan Frank
I moved here, to this place where the woods intersect the desert, to write. Because, for me, to […]