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. […]
Poetry
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Richie Hofmann
They said there was a garden
filled with the remains of two thousand infants.
Unspeakable. […]
Anna Claire Hodge
My manicured nails shock pink
against the double clear of a tumbler
of vodka. Your canoe-carrying
hands, the bitten nubs, cradle swirled
blown glass. You suck at it like
a giving nipple, blow the sweet whorls
[…]
Terrell Jamal Terry
On figures almost faceless, light rips through light. Trees are trimmed to nearly unseen thinness with this increasing distance. […]