America on the brink of war, 1940, and my father born on a dairy farm turned […]
Poetry
Those Little Anodynes manages to weave family history (a connection to Emily Dickinson) with an unverifiable […]
Judge’s Citation by Nick Flynn
There’s a fundamental difference between showering when it’s raining and showering […]
Basic Hygiene by Kara Candito
The daughter fell into the raft of mallards, an impatient tortoise rising from beneath. Theirs was […]
Avoiding the mirror beneath an oak means you disappear, too ...
Falling, parachutes hiss: windgrammar is tears salting the bridge from reason. Memory, green leash, flags in […]
Dream-Work by V. Joshua Adams
We traintrack We thunder to the dreaming men and I’m in the pool, loving […]
Brink by Anne Marie Rooney
I don’t have ideas, I have knives. They’re plastic. I use them to write my name […]
Ends by V. Joshua Adams
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it. Barbara Kruger Out in the ruined […]
Theodicy by Susan O’Dell Underwood
1. If I inhabit the whole house I will suffer no more sorrow than if I […]
Habitation by Ruth Danon
My nightgown is made of almost paper I wish I could have used the shovel more […]
Our Own by Rachel Abramowitz
“My Mother Describes Chemo for Andy Warhol” is a terrifying and funny look at the medical […]
Judge’s Citation by Denise Duhamel
After Robin Schiff I collided with a verb that […]