FEATURE
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Angela Pelster
I needed to turn the words of the oppressors against them, to somehow find within the original language an act of resistance, a betrayal of the idea of superiority, and to pull out the seed of justice buried so deeply within the injustice.
44.1 Feature: CHOOSE YOUR OWN by Debbie Vance
You are sitting in your daughters’ bedroom, holding a fistful of hot pink feathers that you’ve just torn methodically from the boa that now lies naked like a snake skin on the floor.
44.1 Feature: An Interview with Leslie Sainz
“Integer,” is ultimately a narrative concerned with the difficulties of familial, and institutional forgiveness.
44.1 Feature: Sabrina Orah Mark Reads FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR COUNTRY
Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. You can visit her at sabrinaorahmark.com. For the Safety of Our Country by Sabrina Orah Mark Listen to Sabrina Orah Mark read "For the Safety of Our...
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by L. Vella
This series of poems began with the idea of a twin Earth lost on the other side of the sun, eclipsed, antipodal.
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Jill Schepmann
When I think about how to write about bodies, it seems negligent to only speak of one or to do so speaking alone. I felt that desire to see and reach others when I wrote “What Grows Inside,” and tried to make space for those other voices and experiences.
44.1 Feature: sam sax Reads S A T Y R I A S I S
sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the NEA,...
44.1 Feature: A Craft Essay by Alex Terrell
“Black Dog” was my first attempt to provide a space for people like me—Black girls who had always wondered what lay beyond the trees.
44.1 Sneak Peek: ROYAL I by Paige Lewis
Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere. Right-click and...
44.1 Sneak Peek: THE NEW AUTHENTIC by Miguel Angel Ramirez
Miguel Angel Ramirez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. His work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Right-click and "open image in new tab" for a larger version. To read Miguel Angel Ramirez's work and more, pick...