December 11, 2023
Saúl Hernández This Is How I Fight I learned how to kiss a man easy when he held a gun to my neck. I pulled a thread off my shirt & watched the end become a beginning— At school I was taught how to hide from a storm, never how to stop one. When I was a child, I collected fireflies every night. For years I ate them, hoping one day my insides could hold light. ...
October 30, 2023
Before Roe U.S., 1968 It was an eventful year. A year that found me eighteen, on my own, and pregnant. The news wove in and out of my personal story. US soldiers massacred men, women, and children in the village of Mai Lai as the war against the Vietnamese people dragged on. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4th; fury burned in my hometown of Washington, DC, and all over the United States. ...
September 14, 2023
Mathew Weitman in Conversation with Red Pine Bill Porter assumes the pen name Red Pine for his translation work. He was born in Los Angeles in 1943, grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, served a tour of duty in the US Army, graduated from the University of California with a degree in anthropology, and attended graduate school at Columbia University. Uninspired by the prospect of an academic career, he dropped out of ...
July 21, 2023
By Brandi White Vines, A. Lures: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2022. $17.95. One of the first things the reader will notice about Adam Vines’s latest collection of poetry, Lures, is the tranquil cover image of a broken-down fishing pole propped up in a canoe. John Sekutowski’s soft, high-definition photo wraps around the book’s jacket; because the image is shot from the viewer’s ...