Permanent Volta (Nightboat, 2021), Rosie Stockton’s astounding debut, takes on the sonnet and the sestina, subjection and … read more about And You Yourself Calliope:
A Conversation with Rosie Stockton
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CULTURE
And You Yourself Calliope:
Fragmentary Pleasures
by Yasmine Eve Lucas
Phil recommended I visit the Glyptothek as we sat together on a bench in Munich’s Eastern Cemetery. “This has nothing to do … read more about Fragmentary Pleasures
by Yasmine Eve Lucas
ART
The Perpetual Garden with Clement Oladipo and Kandis Williams
by Corey Durbin
A few weeks ago, I was gifted a small artwork by Kandis Williams from Amber Esseiva and the Institute for Contemporary Art … read more about The Perpetual Garden with Clement Oladipo and Kandis Williams
by Corey Durbin
Always Show Up: An Interview with Artist Dominic Chambers
by Aya Kusch
Dominic Chambers is a New Haven-based artist whose immersive, brightly-hued color field paintings explore Black … read more about Always Show Up: An Interview with Artist Dominic Chambers
by Aya Kusch
TRANSLATION
Off the Circuit by Sara Saadlou
Translated From Persian by Siavash Saadlou
I’ve lived three times, and I don’t prefer any of my lives over the other. Life has always been in progress in the circuit … read more about Off the Circuit by Sara Saadlou
Translated From Persian by Siavash Saadlou
Two Poems by Leanne Ellul
Translated from Maltese by Albert Gatt
On again
Again. Take me out of my depth.
These legs below me flailing, flailing.
Again take me
to where … read more about Two Poems by Leanne Ellul
Translated from Maltese by Albert Gatt
POETRY
Welcome to World War Me
by Patrick Meeds
I’ll be a fast-moving cloud, and you
can be low hanging fruit. Don’t be alarmed
by what you are hearing. The … read more about Welcome to World War Me
by Patrick Meeds
Offerings to the Altar of St. Joseph
by J.E. Garrard
After the storm returned:
We sat barefoot on the back porch,
The water whipping itself into a frenzy,
Us in our plastic … read more about Offerings to the Altar of St. Joseph
by J.E. Garrard
FICTION
Being the Murdered Nanny
By Cathy Ulrich
The thing about being the murdered nanny is you set the plot in motion.
You had your own room there, and a bed with a pink … read more about Being the Murdered Nanny
By Cathy Ulrich
A Conversation with Quan Barry
by Nathan Winer
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Nathan Winer: Your most recent novel, We Ride Upon Sticks, is set … read more about A Conversation with Quan Barry
by Nathan Winer
NONFICTION
The Boy Is Now an Obituary
Alyse Bensel
1. What killed him has been excised from the obituary. It exists in the blank space along the margins. Because it is easier to say died than … read more about The Boy Is Now an Obituary
Alyse Bensel
You Seem Really Lonely
by Sage Tyrtle
I'm thirteen. And the Miller Junior High class of 1985 has, in some unspoken, telekinetic election, chosen me as the ugliest and fattest kid in … read more about You Seem Really Lonely
by Sage Tyrtle
