Feature
New Work by Sam Ross Plus a Conversation with Sam Ross and Phillip B. Williams
Sam Ross’s book Company was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2017 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming in 2019. […]
Poetry
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Christina Stoddard
When you ask again if I believe in ghosts,
insisting I commit, I answer with
a vision my cousin had two summers ago […] -
Helen Hofling
Knocked over behind the garden bench
Her stone torso gathers ivy.Vestal, a body premised on removal and now seated […]
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Isaac Ginsberg Miller
In front of the peristyle a woman
gazes into a window made of water.
Not cotton boll, not ticker tape, what whitest […]
Essay
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Talking to Ed about The Big Book of Exit Strategies
I see all the tiny interventions – the gun points, but doesn’t fire, the woman chokes but doesn’t die, the chain of the poem loops dangerously around her neck. What does it mean to survive? […]
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Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
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Adam Hamze
i have seen my lifeless body. it has its own name that sounds nothing like mine. it lives in the bathroom stall of some restaurant, bloody & left behind. in the ditch down the street from the university, rain falling on its silence. […]
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Jukebox
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Sleeping Naked With “Just a Friend”: Examining the Line Between Relationships, Friendships, and Fuckingships
by Hari Ziyad
A friend asked if he could sleep naked in bed with me. A few days before, I lay naked in the arms of another man—a friend too, perhaps my best, but a lover first, I thought. […] -
The Spectacle of Black Death: Remembering Our Killed or Rekindling Their Murders? Part 2
