January 22, 2018
Jessica Guzman Alderman NIGHTTIME SPECTACULAR Walt Disney World Resort As fungus juts, as earthworms purse between grasses, orange obscures the animatronic toucan’s rust— head tilt, beak nip, wing stretching fissures in a spider web & the tangled ...
January 15, 2018
Cedric Tillman Supremacy, or The Black Lifestyle As much as people try to sound like they don't care, some people think a black president will look out for the black lifestyle. - an NC woman, on Ben Carson When I was comin’ up rough/that wasn’t even what you called it/that’s why I smoke blunts now & run with alcoholics - Tupac, “Fuck The World” I How to feed six kids? She doesn’t ...
January 14, 2018
Good news! Contributor Owen McLeod's first book of poems, Dream Kitchen, has just won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, judged by Rosanna Warren! The book will be published by the University of North Texas Press in 2019. McLeod's poems "A Brief Synopsis of Spinoza's *Ethics*" and "A Thursday In and Above the World" appeared in Pleiades 37.2, 2017. Congratulations, ...
January 08, 2018
Matthew Minicucci Gattaca The truth is, I don’t even recognize myself. All I’ve ever wanted to do is leave. Did you know space is like an ocean? Weightless. Waves of light like steam or kelp caught in your arms; stroke to stroke to patient stroke. And nothing. How much I’ve wanted all that nothing. Where I’m going, we don’t need space suits. I’ve got these ...