VOLUME 12
Our twelfth issue includes poetry by Rick Barot, Sylvie Baumgartel, Lindsay Turner, Adrian Blevins, Joe Hall, Graham Foust, Nikia Chaney, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Nicole Higgins, Steve Langan, and more. Nonfiction by James Hannaham, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Joel Long and others. Fiction by Michael X. Wang, Katherine Vaz, and others. Cover art by Igor Moritz.
Though not esoteric, the poems are certainly not easy either. They are by turns abstract and concrete, tender and brutal, glib and sincere. They don’t orbit a theme so much as they draw in a variety of themes by their own gravity. This gravity, their indelible weight, is the key Read more
April 14, 2024
Pui Ying Wong’s book of poems, Fanling in October, is both restrained and deeply surprising. She is a traveler, not just across borders, but across history, her own ancestry and that of others, in search of home—past, present, and future. Read more
March 29, 2024
Loop Light awhile under the door then gone then you out into the dawn and then me back asleep. Read more
March 28, 2024
Unfiltered and full of dark humor, desire, and sexual energy, Southwick’s debut poetry collection, Orchid Alpha, unpacks the id of the modern day woman. The speaker flirts with the edges of gender constructs and social boundaries, between “being good” and inviting indiscretion. Played out in acrylic bathtubs and hotel bars, Read more
March 13, 2024
The forward slash is used, of course, to indicate a line break when writing about poetry and since forward slashes are used throughout, “A Baton”—one of the few dualities—I will write out “(line break)” and consequently “(stanza break)” to honor the use of the forward slash in the poem. Read more
February 25, 2024
Every Single Bird Rising is this poet’s second language. Xiaoly Li’s debut collection is both weightless and heavy, depending on the line your eyes end up lingering on. What I love about this collection is this text presents some challenges as a writer: I cannot tell you who I am Read more
February 11, 2024