A new poem by Dr. Tara Zafft

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.

In Ashley Howell Bunn’s innovative collection of poems the erasure technique is turned not outwards, but inwards.

My heart is so great with love
I could use bouquets of roses for money

I didn’t with my first boyfriend, a track star I used for his prep school windbreaker.

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...

New Poem by Beth Anstandig, author of The Garden of Forking Paths.

New poem by T. R. Poulson, a proud

Everyone is culpable.Everyone has slung epithets,repeated rumors,stoked resentment,had murderous thoughts.Wars don’t start without hatred,without dehumanization,without a collective fever.Everyone’s participation is required,active or passive,for the war machineto...