In “Wise Hazard”, Jane Zwart considers humanity’s future in the face of climate change: “Only later do I wonder who would trade all that life / for being proved right.”
Poetry
Wise Hazard
IT IS BEAUTIFUL THAT WE EXIST
by Angela Janda
This is holy: April, its wavering warmth. That the body makes a body. That the bereavement peace lily from 1-800-Flowers out-arches its container, won’t wither no matter how little I water. The umbrella plant in its macrame swing scratching the living room’s east wall, snowball bloom of the cherry tree beyond the window. Do you […]
Review: Mona Kareem’s I Will Not Fold These Maps translated from the Arabic by Sara Elkamel
by Jacqueline Schaalje
Familiar tropes from Arabic poetry, the loneliness of the desert, sweetness of roses, cups of tea, the intimacy of courtyards, tears, hearts, souls, night and weeping to the moon, which can all become quickly sentimental, abound in Mona Kareem’s bilingual I Will Not Fold These Maps. But they are given a new twist because they […]
self-portrait as rodent
by Sophie Hall
my sister tells me what it’s like to run across the roof of a repair shop: it made noises like the Mount Storm floor and I thought I was going to fall everywhere. . almost-euphemism—the floor of our fear . holds the name of our […]
Spaces of Affect and Enormity: Angela Peñaredondo
interviewed by Simone Zapata
Angela Peñaredondo’s book, nature felt but never apprehended was published this past March by Noemi Press, and has since garnered high acclaim. Featured on Community of Literary Magazine’s recommended reading list for Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and on Small Press Distribution’s February and March 2023’s Bestseller List, nature felt but never apprehended traverses historical landscapes […]
hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?
by tommy wyatt
You’re the Woods Too by Dennis James Sweeney
Review by Xander Gershberg
Dennis James Sweeney’s You’re the Woods Too—a hybrid collection of interwoven poems, journal entries, visuals, and stage directions—masterfully intervenes on literary and social figurations of nature in evocative language. Early in the collection, the speaker offers a definition of that operative concept: “Nature (n): the part of the world WE cannot control, no matter how […]
On Introspection
by Merridawn Duckler
Surprising how much of it is song. Much is lyric. Under that, admonition, calling yourself names before someone does. Open question who someone else consists of. Thinking how often it all ends in a dangling participle. Why is it bad. Or, to put it another way, what does this world consist of. Manufactured conversations. Some […]
Eve and Insomnia Barbie Tour the Dream House
by Carolyn Oliver
You wanted at least three showers, two oceans— and a pool to watch anemones devour jellyfish. Listen, I’d love to stay, but I’ve disremembered my accessories. Here’s a mermaid’s purse, for when you find them. Turkey-lettuce wrap, eye mask, Kant? Hegel. I was thinking, in the living room: Everything goes wrong at the water’s surface. […]
cul-de-sac
by Hannah Loeb
empty house. cleared hardwood floor, except for an oily smear where my saag paneer spilled the third to last night we lived there together; we had already packed the side tables, so i balanced my last available bowl on the armrest of the couch… inevitable splat of creamed spinach in the dust, a photo of […]
