Poetry, CNF, and Graphic Essays.

So good you can taste it.

TAG

Volume 15

Jen Rouse

On a Middle-Aged Birthday The worlds beginto thin now.So much that Iam not disturbedwhen I spill intoa life I leftlong ago. I buycheap coffeefor home,...

Erin Greenhalgh

Spirits of the Anthropocene I. Meditation split-second papercut twinge the smell of cool morning giving way to too hot afternoon a wasp its long legs trailing...

Marcia Aldrich

In My Head: Tinnitus Origin From the Latin tinnire, “to ring or tinkle like a bell.” Definition The perception of noise or ringing in the ears. Paradox Nothing outside of...

Kimberly Nunes

Love in an Airport The cancerous gland. Gone now. In the restroom at LAX, I take my tight purple panties off and hand them to my husband in the...

Bethany Jarmul

Bethany Jarmul (Twitter:@BethanyJarmul) is a writer, editor, and artist. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and been nominated for Best of the...

W. Todd Kaneko

Side Quests You travel alone across this emaciated America, this atom-scorched landscape where the cattle are radiation-burned, where the deer wander with both heads alert...

Rebecca Brock

To My Father Whose Pitch Has Always Been About Surviving Years and years you triedto teach me.Now, I call hometo remind you of fragility—as if...

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Notes on Dissociation The summer comes unbuttoned and your mind slips free of its body to float up and nudge the corner of the ceiling...

Maureen Stanton

A Long Way to Tipperary Growing up with six siblings, I never had much time alone with my father, especially after my parents divorced when...

Matthew Lippman

Everyone Listened to Prince For the longest time I tried to see joy in the robin’s egg or purple cloud at dawn.The sound of a...

Latest news

Gabriel Blackmann

Allen Means

Shannon Dale