PORNOMISERIA (for Ziggy) To fetishize our suffering: pornomiseria. Each earthquake and wildfire, pornomiseria. Wolf Blitzer pleads, “How many are dead? How many more could die in Hurricane Pornomiseria?” Andrea Dworkin thought God was the ultimate pornographer as He watched each car crash—pornomiseria— as He watched each bomb drop that He could have stopped. Incest, rough sex, gang bang, bukkake, pornomiseria, i.e. pornhub videos you can watch online for free. I laugh when s

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orhisis, 1997). She teaches creative writing at Florida International University. “Pornomiseri

Listen to Anna Journey + David St. John read at the Jerome Stern Distinguished Writers Series.

Lareign Ward’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Mary Sue, Under the Gum Tree, and elsewhere. She’s a Texas native who currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. Ward's nonfiction, “Two Boyfriends,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 35.2 . Two Boyfriends I have both a live boyfriend and a dead boyfriend. I don’t see much of either one these days. The live one lives two-and-a-half hours away, including a ferry ride. The dead one lived and died

Ann Stewart McBee was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She graduated with a PhD in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she taught writing and served as an editor for cream city review. She has published fiction and poetry in Citron Review, Blue Earth Review, Palaver and At Length among others. She now teaches English at Des Moines Area Community College, and lives outside Des Moines, Iowa with her husband. McBee's fiction, “Ruth's Red Ale,” was origin

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, a chapbook collaboration with Elizabeth Alexander. She is currently at work on The Coal Tar Colors, her third poetry collection, and Purchase, a collection of essays. She has written plays and lyrics for The Cherry, an Ithaca arts collective. She was one of ten celebrated

Tara Ison is the author of the novels Rockaway, A Child out of Alcatraz, and The List, the short story collection Ball, and Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies, a collection of essays. She is a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. Hi, Tara! I first want to say that I’m obsessed with Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies and my students are, too. Movies and creative writing really go

Alysia Sawchyn currently lives in Northern Virginia. She is a nonfiction editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection, and her writing has appeared in Fourth Genre, Barrelhouse, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Sawchyn's nonfiction, “Phone Sex, Revisited,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 35.2 and was one of our 2017 Pushcart nominees for the 2018 Pushcart anthology. Phone Sex, Revisited I don’t often talk about my brief stint as a phone sex operator. The in

Listen to Brandi Nicole Martin reading at the Jerome Stern Distinguished Writers Series.

David James Poissant's craft talk, “Find, Replace: Revising Prose Style in a Microsoft Word World,” was originally published in The Southeast Review's October 2017 Writer’s Regimen. Let me get one thing out of the way, right away: I love to teach. I’m not one of those writers who teaches merely to support my writing habit. I love both teaching and writing. Even if I didn’t need the money, I’d keep teaching. I consider such work an honor, a privilege, and a way of paying back