Kathryn Haemmerle
Children bind cicadas to cement with tape, and we stand nearby. Bulbous bodies. Beneath scotch tape, males flex tymbals in their abdomens. Drum-organs pulsate and hum like warnings. […]
2016
Luther Hughes
remember your own.
your wrists engulfed
in his as he snatches
you from living
room to kitchen. next time
do as i say. […]
Emily Koehn
I am almost you but you
are the winner. You’ve plucked
the vines in front of you full
and applauded. […]
Marty McConnell
My white heart sits at a distance from itself hearing
the news, murder on murder, starlings
dropped from an iron sky, […]
Quenton Baker
DRIP for George Stinney, Jr. It’s a fine spring day. Not too hot, no rain. Two scoops of Alcolu’s finest sweet cream just for you, little man. Take your time, enjoy the fat chill of […]
Lucia LoTempio
She wears dresses how you’d palm egg yolks: blood-orange
convex cells soft pruning palm-lines. […]
T.A. Burkholder
She couldn’t see or feel it yet, but it was there. All that wet wanting to exhale from the sky. I’m walking fast because it’s about to pour. She had the explanation, the dismissive yet biting tone all ready before she got past the school parking lot. In her head, it was perfect. But on her tongue, it was useless. She’d never use it. She’d never say a thing. […]
Toni Morrison Wins PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Lifetime Achievement
PEN America announced on Tuesday that Toni Morrison had won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The panel of judges for the $25,000 award was composed of Louise Erdrich, who won the […]
Review Minis: Blood Medals, Bone Map, With Animal
Staci Schoenfeld offers some thoughts on Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson, Blood Medals by Claudia Cortese, and With Animal by Carol Guess and Kelly Magee […]
Airea D. Matthews wins Yale Younger Poets Prize
Series judge Carl Phillips says: “Rebellion is the first word that comes to mind, when reading simulacra, Airea Matthews’s rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant debut. The main rebellion here […]