Excerpt from Echo Frequency by Wes Jamison
Wes Jamison’s work has appeared most recently in The Hopper, Diagram, and The Rumpus. He is currently a PhD student at University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Prose
The Body Politic by Susanne Antonetta and Carol Guess
Third Arm The President has a third arm. A mouse claw, a bird’s leg, a ferret’s foot. Hoppy and scritchy. Or so people say. This arm would not matter so much if the other arms were not normal, even hefty. At stump speeches the third arm hangs in its jacket […]
“An Architectural Duck”: An Excerpt from In Lieu of Flowers: A Quarantine Collaboration by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade
Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade are the authors of The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, published by Noctuary Press in 2019. Their collaborative poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals, including Arts & Letters, The Bellingham Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Fourth Genre: Explorations […]
Excerpt from The Song Is Always an Instruction in How to Sing by Rachel Howard
“The Man I Love” Music by George Gershwin, lyrics by brother Ira, written in 1924 for the musical Lady Be Good, cut from that show and two others, finally a hit via sheet music sales. Someday he’ll come along . . . the man I love . . […]
Overview Effect by Jeannine Ouellette
This is not about the novel coronavirus, or the quarantine, or the strange new anguish we’re masking behind 10 X 6 rectangles of cotton fabric. It’s not about that, not directly, because it started long before the first fever in Wuhan. It started with stars. Did you know that the […]
The Parable of the Millerites by Keene Short
When my parents took up the cause of American history, it was after the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The Kennedys had been martyred, and nothing had felt right since, like an unfinished promise. Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel. My mom served history by working for Geraldine Ferraro’s 1984 […]
To defy the gods: Form, Resilience & Capaciousness in Shira Dentz’s Sisyphusina by Rachel Abramowitz
In the ancient Greek myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus, king of Corinth and “the most cunning of men” (Illiad, 6:153), cheats death twice, once by actually holding Death hostage (thus giving humans a short break from Death’s perpetual trade), and the second time by talking his way out of the Underworld. […]
The Desk by Susanne Paola Antonetta and Carol Guess
The company sold something; Emma didn’t know what. She worked the front desk in the lobby, which had a ceiling that rose to the third floor, late capitalist cathedral-esque. The second and third floors crossed the lobby by catwalk. All day long she listened to boots, heels, flats, and wheels […]
Second Person by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
second place One of your early poetry manuscripts won second place in a book contest. It was a step up from being a finalist, you supposed, but when the press offered you a scholarship to a writer’s conference in lieu of publication, you were insulted. You thought you were too […]
Orbital Reflector by David Harris Gershon
It was launched into the night sky on December 3, 2018, the first purely artistic satellite, a Mylar balloon pushed into a cinder-block-sized cell, collapsed upon itself in silent prayer or despair, detained, waiting for release. On December 3, 1800, electors cast equal votes for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron […]