VOLUME 14
Our fourteenth issue includes poetry by Jane Wong, John Bonanni, Betsy Johnson, Jendi Reiter, Bobby Elliott, Stefanie Kirby, Greg Nicholl, Pui Ying Wong, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Julie Choffel, Mary Feimi, and others. Nonfiction by Joan Houlihan, John Ambrosio, Sullivan Summer, and others. Fiction by Gary Zebrun, Dina Dwyer, Michael Mejia, Tess Lloyd, and others. Art by Joel Long, Katherine Lynn Nonemaker, and Lydia Creep. Cover art by Joel Long.
The notion of seeing—that is, foretelling, seeing beyond—resounds in the collection, beginning with the title, “Oracle Smoke Machine.” Poet and artist assume prophetic personae of antiquity: Goodwin as Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, the high priestess to Apollo, the god of the sun and poetry—and Proski as Tiresias, the Theban Read more
July 10, 2025
The self-evident sensuous beauty of Waldman’s poetic word can’t be given by criticism, for, in taking it as my object, I have separated the meaning of the word and the materiality of the word. As soon as I describe her words with different words—different marks, sounds—I’ve subordinated material to meaning. Read more
June 17, 2025
Humming beneath the brutal, often grotesque landscape of the book is a quiet, profound philosophical inquiry. Through sections separated by definitions of spare, Lewis asks: what makes a life worthwhile? What is the truth? What do we inherit? Is fortune random, “the tornado that rips through, decimating one house while Read more
May 7, 2025
"William Morris, Wrapped in Brown Paper" and “For in Marriage” are from a lectio divina of Mrs. Dalloway, my second favorite book ever. I hadn’t read Mrs. Dalloway in years, as if saving up for a special occasion or an emergency—I wanted to linger and live in it, so I read and reread 5 pages at Read more
April 5, 2025
I OEDIPUS on Fridays strip my anger off like mummy-wrap / and pitch it at the night, our dusty orchid wallpaper where / shadows are themselves the other half of us, in bed, inside my Read more
April 5, 2025