Jill McKenna Reed
I hold your heel while you wail;
my mouth skull-cracked. […]
February 2016
Kenji C. Liu
I chase their bright twenties
and the steeple of their youth. […]
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Nurses are typically women: what I think
when the goatee wants to take my blood. […]
Liam Curley
We’re horseshoeing towards the Oregon coast, me with May, us keeping each other awake, talk departing our heads. We’re in a car, slouching, feeling clayed. We pass lumber yards, the sweat rings on ball caps of the Pacific Northwest, the tree trunks carried as cargo like battering rams in cribs, all labor. […]
PEN Literary Awards Shortlists announced!
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Shortlist: In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya The Symathizer: A Novel by Viet […]