Poetry by Alicia Byrne Keane
A Habit | and other poems
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On Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra by Jacob Griffin Hall
Earlier tonight, I sat on my apartment balcony in the cold and stared at the few stars that rampant light pollution allowed to break through. . .
“Reflection, On Blackberries” by Marisa Vito
Reflection, on Blackberries “It is my mouth forever, I am in love with it” My mother told me that when she was a…
Minima
Poetry by Dana Levin
As If by Dana Levin
“Saga of Tom the Gator-Fiend” by Emrys Donaldson
Over weeks of daily bird-watching, he noticed a sharp decline in the numbers of brown thrashers and tufted titmice. . .
“Dear Book” by Angel Dominguez
I mostly think I’m tethered to those sidewalks, and those cracks form an autobiography where the roses figure the concrete. . .
Ephemera
Translator’s Dispatch: Robin Myers on Tedi López Mills
as genuinely interested in the pursuit of wisdom as she is resigned to the belief that she will never achieve it. . .
Translator’s Dispatch: Joan Brooks on Stanislava Mogileva
The three poems I have translated mark the beginning and end of our affair. . .
Translator’s Dispatch: Jonathan Larson on Nathalie Quintane
For no good reason, I had myself convinced that any meaningful momentum would come from escape. . .
Vis-à-Vis
A Settled Place Within: A Conversation with Asali Solomon by Charles Ramsay McCrory
Solomon and I sat down to discuss writing rituals, the particularity of black Philadelphia, and disgruntlement as a rite of passage.
SEX, SYNTAX, AND TAKING UP SPACE: A CONVERSATION WITH TIANA CLARK BY S. BROOK CORFMAN
Tiana Clark on her debut poetry collection and how to structure a poem, a book, an essay, a writing life.
“You Don’t Get to Fall in Love and Not Be Vulnerable.”: A Conversation with Jericho Brown by Aaron Coleman
Jericho Brown on the beginnings of his career, his evolving writing process, and what it means to “stay vulnerable to the work” in a culture that primes us to run away from intimacy.
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Said if he didn’t put the spoon back he would call the manager. He replied what spoon? . . .
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I want a bridge fifteen thousand pedes long and twelve hundred pedes wide—one that floats atop the Bay of Baiae on which I shall…
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“No Country for Dangling Modifiers” by Con Chapman
We rode for two days straight into the high country up where the commas stopped growing and there was nothing but scrub brush and rocks . . .
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“Literary Self-Help Classics” by Ellen Girardeau Kempler
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“Suspiria: A Fairytale in Sighs” by Jayme Russell
Floor map of the Dance Academy, including path to the witches’ quarters (as illustrated by footsteps) . . .
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