Lisa Mecham
While men get war or office work, women
must carve out space for unhappiness
at home, in carpools, on playground benches. […]
2017
Alan C Pelaez Lopez
before the crossing1 our family could understand the whispers of the water2. we bathed our cuerpos morenos as if we we were holy […]
Lucy Wainger
Their voices harden under spotlight
& the audience’s gaze,
their costumes tight as bodies. […]
Khalid Abu Dawas
i will
tell them the way your curls
like smoke
wrap around the sides of a bed […]
Dorsey Craft
Just before Christmas, my father’s intestines bloomed,
emerged pink from inside eroded stitches, […]
Ronnie Festok
We move like water:
a riptide of fragrant vagabonds
fallen fool to Earth’s promise […]
R. Cassandra Bruner
I wanted to joke about Moses loving god
having seen only his backside,
but friend, it’s too early for sacrilege.
Instead, let’s talk about whores. […]
Danez Smith
New work by Danez Smith plus a conversation between Danez and Phillip B. Williams […]
Sarah Miller Freehauf
Days before he would die, we stood waiting for the bus.
He was taunted by wild child-wolves. I stood behind him— […]
Vinyl Winter 2016 PDF Edition is here!
Please welcome our first compilation edition! It includes all work published in Vinyl during January and February of 2016. This edition includes pieces by Erika Sanchez, Joshua Bennett, Kaley Rae Candrilli, José Olivarez, Justin Phillip Reed, […]