Congrats, Susan Sonde!
Her poetry collection, "The Arsonist," is available on The Main Street Rag. “Arsonists are descended from dragons, and Susan Sonde is a poet with wings and teeth. She flies through centuries, blending a scriptural cadence with post-Modern shrieks. If Heaven and Hell...
CATCHING THE LIGHT WHILE IT’S STILL FRESH: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXA POTEET
Alexa Poteet is a poet whose only studio is the world, and perhaps enough outer space to encompass the moon and one or two illustrious planets. Her work in progress is a life in progress, small studies of a larger unfinished piece. Poteet’s debut...
Congrats to Kevin!
Cue the fanfare. Our very own Kevin McDaniel has a debut book from Main Street Rag called Rubbernecking. Click here to order! "Kevin McDaniel is keen to learn why he’s here—to know why any of us matter in our radical small towns where birth is slopping around cut...
Remembering Andy Goodman
by Nancy Jainchill "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." —Martin Luther King, Jr. A STEAMY SUMMER DAY IN AUGUST 1964, ON MY WAY TO visit family for a cookout in the suburbs, I fell in love with...
Unfounded
by David Dodd Lee We do try to speak out, voices in little bursts, the snapping of twiglets, maybe in a bustlefrom bedroom to office. As well, aghast, we sometimes overthink, estranged in themoment, estranged by the moment, a lack of imagination, of experience. It's...
Dispatches: The Chicago Race Riots, 1919
As seen in The Geography of Home by Matthew Graham For Marcus Wicker New things is comin' Altogether diverse From what they has been. --Reverend W.C. Thompson of the Pentecostal Church, 34th and South State Street, Chicago, Illinois I. The Facts The Red Summer began...
Texas Crude: A Realistic Portrait of Gay Rural Life
by Derek Berry Texas Crude, the debut short story collection by Thomas Kearnes, offers an intimate portrait of gay lives in East Texas. In equal measures erotic, heartbreaking, and rousing, the collection invites us into his characters’ inner lives, whether they be...
Cavalier by Linda Michel-Cassidy
There's something deliciousin riding the airport shuttlewithout one's affairs in order.Such a relief to motor away from chaos. All those passwords commemoratedon long-gone slips of paper,dental records at a new officethe name of which I've repeated to no one,tax...
Live Lobster by Kevin McDaniel
for Tess Like an orbiting satellite,my daughter's yellow cap bobsaround the lobster holding tankof the illuminated fresh seafood display,He's not swimming, Daddy,she informs me.He's resting, baby,I reply, thinking he's not alive, but dead and destined for a customer's...
Inconnue de la Seine by Annie Diamond
Born near 1870, she did not get her epithetuntil 1926--Unknown Woman of the Seine. Camus called her a drowned Mona Lisa;suitable, as she was pulled from the riverat the Quai du Louvre, the museum whereMona Lisa has been since 1797. Inconnuean apparent suicide, because...
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