At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet moves...
Welcome to the Village with All of the Boyfriends Dear Reader, Since Zach’s passing I’ve reread his book, Boy Oh Boy, over and over. It just won The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and will be published by Red Hen Press. I’m excited and sad to see it in the...
Leah Sophia Dworkin Leah Sophia Dworkin is an artist and writer who lives in New York City. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Hotel, Cosmonauts Avenue, BOMB, Hobart, and elsewhere online. She’s an Assistant Editor...
After We Ruin My Love’s Heart, the God of Annihilation Prays Back to Me Kemi Alabi tap here for phone-friendly version O brick fist, storm’s eye, twitching guardian of angels cast as devil-to-be, tell me: how has the ammonia cloud & rootshred of your bed, blazing...
L U S T, f o a m, & M DN GHT BLUE Caroline Cooledge McCraw (1) L U S T — a found language piece that rearranges text from St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, wherein his section on lust problematically ranks the sinfulness of sexual acts. This piece is an...
