
Bell and Light by Jessica Bonder Book Trailer
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Acropolis Oya Overlooks the Bay
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...

Animals in English by Hilary Sideris
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...
Finalists
Congratulations to our finalists! 480 writers participated in 3 categories. We considered prose to be any writing that went all the way across the page, and it included novels, novellas, story collections, essay collections, and memoir. We considered poetry to be just...

Eric Tran Maps Identity Through Pop Culture, Then Erases the Map Through Grief
GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER, by Eric Tran (2020 Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 62 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-938769-51-1) Reviewed by Derek Berry Eric Tran’s debut poetry collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Rising...

Review of Elizabeth Powell’s “Atomizer”
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,...

Existential Pick-up Lines
Hey, I’m just a girl, standing 5 feet away from a boy. Asking him to maybe move back another foot. Thanks. I saw you from across the bar. Stay there. You smell so good. Is that Purell you’re wearing? If I told you that you have a beautiful body, would you hold it...

Suppose Muscle Suppose Night Suppose This in August(SMSNSTIA) by Danielle Zaccagnino
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...

Suppose Muscle Suppose Night Suppose This in August(SMSNSTIA) by Danielle Zaccagnino
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...

Scrapping the Memoir
by Linda Caradine Last night I told Klaus that I was thinking of scrapping my memoir. As an elder sibling he should have some insight into this decision, but I had to supply reasons more than it seemed like the right thing to do. I told him there is a sub-genre known...