—after Hanif Abdurraqib The last night I drove him home, I took a wrong turn, crisscrossing Baltimore, wondering if he noticed how many times we’d passed the arboretum.His eyes were as bright as ever, and his chin was peppered with the wiry excuse of a...

Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees for works published in 2020! Prose Fiction: “One Small Death before the Plague” by Pam Gullard Fiction: “The High Atlas” by Matthew Raymond Poetry “Yellow” by Jan LaPerle “The Look” by Eric Weil “Incident Report” by Gary Duehr...

Do you know— what happened to my portable hot-tub? she asks,the one that filled in four minuteswith a bottom like a waterbed? I shakemy head. She enters my stalland backs me against the tiles. Someonetook a knife to it. I keep soaping,hoping my intimate attentions...

at our fingertips maybeyou think I don't understandthe intimacy of music the way a guitar string moanswhen pressedand strummedbut I have known those fingers andbeen those strings with my neckcaressed by a single handwhilethe otherworked furiously at the openingyou may...

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Oh, enelysios, we greet  the summer dawn  gulls quiet, doves hushed fishing boats troll  their exit from Agios Giorgios I woke startled from this fetid dream  a tangle of taught possibilities and discomfort nippled volcanoes emerged and the ocean soothed the...

Congratulations to contributor Hilary Sideris for her new book Animals in English! Famed critic, Barrett Warner, says: "Autism is a survival trait among prey animals. It's a rational instinct for separating a detail from the whole of something because a detail can...

An atomizer is the part of a vape used to make mist out of liquid, to turn density into smoke. When one imagines the word atomizer, one imagines the vast being made into small digestible slivers. This is because unlike the clouds, a funnel of smoke has a direction,...