Writing Toward Grief: A Conversation with Cass Donish
Cass Donish is a queer poet, writer, and educator from Greater Los Angeles. They earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where…
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Excerpts from “Kelly in Violet” by Cass Donish
These excerpts are reprinted from Cass Donish’s collection, Your Dazzling Death, published by Knopf in 2024. Read our interview with Cass Donish here. Cass…
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5 Poems by Dorothea Lasky
A green apple that ignites the night/ A green ghost with its mouth open/ On the fourth thumb a green ghost/ With a wild tongue
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“Blood Stains, Flame Tree” by Efe Rosario
There were at least eight of us around the flame tree. I can only remember William and Albert, who lived right below the apartment…
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“The Middle Ages” by Luci Arbus-Scandiffio
So you wake up / Smelling like woodchips / Picking the straw from your sleeve
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“Sacred Objects” by Elisa Luna Ady
Things we do not wish on: milk teeth, sunflower seeds, paper dolls
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“From the Sea We Come and Unto the Sea We Go” by Antony Paschos
The mass stops the minute Fishbone crosses the threshold of the church. The cantor stops unfolding his long masculine notes, and the priest’s chapped…
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“To Tend” by Ocean Wei
One: To Bear, To Tend Bear with me: I feel like a salmon flipping on a wooden cutting board. You might think about the…
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Poetry by Sandra Lim
A long-suppressed murderousness / is coming to, a new little perfume in the air
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“Stone Fruit” by Jamie Cattanach
A boy in the desert painted my picture once. He was living in a tent. There was snow on the ground, but he’d taken…
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