Obsessions, Confessions by Lee Woodman
I don’t call it dreaming, it is a constant state of being, becoming.
I Start at the Star—
A new poem by Dr. Tara Zafft
The Moment Before It Passes
My Prisoner and Other Stories has been described as an empathetic examination of working-class life, a book about late capitalism’s structural forces — the prison system, economic desperation — and the human kindness that persists beneath them. None of this is wrong.
Book Review: I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall
A very, very interior book, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both is a well written diary of a twitchy kid who’s much less interested in other things and people and much more interested in her feelings about them.
Ashley Howell Bunn, “burning, breaking, building,” Reviewed by Matt Hohner
In Ashley Howell Bunn’s innovative collection of poems the erasure technique is turned not outwards, but inwards.
“Dawn” by Chris Bullard
My heart is so great with love
I could use bouquets of roses for money
I Didn’t by Kristen Keckler
I didn’t with my first boyfriend, a track star I used for his prep school windbreaker.
Dispatch from South Charles and West Pratt Streets by Anna Mantzaris
We cross genres (and defy categorization) one morning, and bend them the next. Art Taylor leads panel questions resulting in answers such as “playing with constraints” and “letting a story go where it needs to go.” The next day Helen Phillips (Hum) and Pemi Aguda...
The Trees of Given Moments
New Poem by Beth Anstandig, author of The Garden of Forking Paths.
Fifteen Hundred Ladybugs
New poem by T. R. Poulson, a proud
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