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I am the fable with a mouth… This line from “Ballad for Kissing Beneath the Tawdry Fireworks” encapsulates […]
Four Cities by Hala Alyan
A choice: the castle, the chapel, or else the exploded gunpowder manufactory... What happens when the space […]
Dark Archive: On G.C. Waldrep’s Testament & its Sources
With the sophistication of its dialectical movement, the gravitas of its ethical appeal, and the mercy of its […]
A Noncommittal Engagement: Citizen by Claudia Rankine
In 2014, Octopus Books published an anthology of work by poet Wong May, whose 1969 collection, A Bad […]
Picasso’s Tears by Wong May
In “The Night My Mother Left Me for America,” Clara Changxin Fang draws “a square house with […]
Editor’s Foreword by Christopher Kondrich
Recent years have seen an ever-increasing preoccupation with the ownership of literary texts, a desire to claim everything […]
The Lyric “I” as a Conversation: On Collaborative Poetry ...
Let’s start with the subjunctive: If I were in charge of party favors at the Oscars and the […]
Declarative, Urgent, and Rare: Jon Thompson’s Landscape with Light
Hello and happy summer! I’m thrilled to introduce Paul A. Christiansen’s review of Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering. It’s always […]
Editor’s Note
Gazing into the outside world often affords one a closer view of the self. In his essay collection, […]
Loitering by Charles D’Ambrosio
The Name Museum, Nick McRae’s first full-length collection of poems and winner of C&R Press’s De Novo Poetry […]
The Name Museum by Nick McRae
All too often, we define textual hybridity in terms of literary genres, implying that a writer may only […]