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Volume 16

Sally Anderson Boström

The Other One On the day I dare myself to have a drink in the city, alone, I end up sitting behind you. Someone I...

Emma Conlon

Silver Sage En route to Montecatini-Terme, Federica asks us, jet-lagged and bleary eyed, if we know how to spot the olive trees speckled along the sloping countryside. Laura’s voice...

Katy Scarlett

On Homemaking When I was eight, a young woman died alone in her apartment. And when I was nine, and ten, and every year after,...

Theodora Ziolkowski

At the memory care center, the parlor resembles what was once my grandmother’s bedroombut with artificial flowers.Dixie cups swirl with pink ice cream,the coffee table...

Karen Kao

Food Fight Grandma was born in 1892 in a village south of Shanghai, the name of which has been lost to family history. It might...

Shira Dentz

Pulling air into a tight vortex spins into a poem, readymade. I knew nothing of how poems came to be, so willed them. Like waterspouts, they twirled...

Tom Kelly

After His Bender, My Brother Takes Me Skydiving In a few minutes, if we’ve managed to pull the parachutes, I will wrestle my brother into...

Rochelle Hurt

Lightboxes Yoko Ono – Cut Piece (1965) interactive performance with artist and scissors, filmed at Carnegie Recital Hall Faith Ringgold – American People #20: Die (1967) oil on...

Brian Benson

Love Story Six summers ago, on a sun-bleached dock in Beaufort, South Carolina, my friend Galen gave me the best hug of my entire life....

Stefanie Kirby

With Wind The curtain breathes when I give birth to death, its push from open windows: out. They mark my door with a leaf to say, There is no breath inside this...

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