REBECCA LINDENBERG is the author of Love, an Index (McSweeney’s, 2012) and The Logan Notebooks (Center for Literary Publishing, 2014), winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award. She’s the recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, an NEA Literature Grant, a...
Sam Taylor White Trash Walking toward the river, I saw— well, I didn’t know what I saw. I’d never seen so many—how many? ten? twelve?—snowy egrets at once, in a single tree overhanging the river, then realized it must be trash of some kind as if from...
PRESSED Simone Muench and Jackie K. White On a sheetless mattress, immobile and undone, I was marked for ruin. I drowned in dread, became a stain, a container of shatter, of “I don’t matter.” I’m told to muzzle that...
PROGRAMMED Carlina Duan it’s in the way the light moves, the doctor explains, as wài pó’s eyes follow ours in the summer room, as her legs droop over a wooden chair, dressed in the cotton pants we placed her in, her chin going soft against our...