Poem in Which My Father Tells Me the Forecast The snow can’t decide whether to go to bed with its socks on or off. My father calls & this...

For My First Culinary Trick, I Attempt Bananas Foster Hand Pies and I’ve never had Bananas Foster or eaten a hand pie. I know that the...

Elizabeth Haidle Inward, 2019 watercolor, 15 x 15" Home Again, 2020 watercolor, 6 x 11" Connect, 2019 watercolor, 15 x 15" What Is It?,...

Tugging when I was young, my sister would wash my back for me, scrubbing where I couldn’t reach. sometimes I would pull open the glass...

Making Out at the Movies After Frank O’Hara There was always gum involved, back row under the projector. Sometimes I wanted to, sometimes...

Do Not Soften Your Edges It Only Makes You Easier to Consume Everything you’ve heard about me is true. I won’t worship that which wants...

Some Lines for the Looming Apocalypse After Czeslaw Milosz On the day humanity edges over a cliff with an unknowably steep face I am...

The Eleventh Bowling Pin I did not realize it was already too late, this is a club you’re in or you’re not. I did not realize I had...

When God Opens a Door He Closes a Loophole One spring morning, a sinkhole opened up at the far end of the elementary school. It swallowed...

Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano Phoebe Myers Grafting a plant requires the fusing of a root and a shoot; the two parts meld together to...

To Accept the Void 1 a devastation gives way 2 the void invites me over for tea and prickly pear it explains oblivion in terms of a...

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...

"About the Work" with Nadia Shahbaz In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

"About the Work" with Hannah V Warren In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

“Outside of Time”: An Interview with Pace Taylor By K. Iver See more of Pace Taylor's artwork in Vol. 39.2 here. Artist's Statement My...

"About the Work" with Han Chang In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing...