by Patrick Kindig Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022 Patrick Kindig is assistant professor of English at Tarleton State University. He is the author of the chapbook all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016) as well as the academic monograph Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (Louisiana State… [Read More]

by Irene Villaseñor *Your Rivulet Silhouette is in 04 degrees of Delinquenting Pisces  Due to being on the tenth houseplant cusp (MIDHEAVEN), you are very sensitive to your own swallowing, so other perfectionists’ felonies become your felonies. Try to avoid the most negative of perfectionists because your terrors’ desires to empathize with them will make… [Read More]

by Chelsea Dingman Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, won the National Poetry Series (UGA Press, 2017). Her second book, through a small ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2020). Her third collection I, Divided, is forthcoming from LSU Press in the November 2023. She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have… [Read More]

by Grace Holtzclaw Gargoyle raptor cathedral  Roquefort rot cloche Hôtel de Médicis Room 27  Cold cut crystal Caves of Tattinger Plumes of perfumes and opium  Don’t you love her madly When she’s strung out On the floor Grace Holtzclaw is a music journalist based in Los Angeles. Her poetry has been featured in the Los Angeles… [Read More]

by Becka Mara McKay “A black bear made its way into the Union Depot parking ramp early Thursday morning.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 20, 2020 Becka Mara McKay is a poet and a translator of Hebrew literature. She directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University, where she serves as faculty advisor to Swamp… [Read More]

by Fortunato Salazar Petite uncle actor at anchor .and deep Stygian acquaintance .you and you I don’t know how you go (go on) apart after so much doctrine, a bed at night a canopy in the day .dosel .you don’t dent won’t wear my print good money, hungry I’m about to fall into the source of… [Read More]

by Tanner Pruitt Tanner Pruitt studied creative writing at the University of Virginia, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry before moving to San Francisco. He works in corporate strategy at Everlaw, a company that makes software for lawyers and legal professionals. Some of his other poems can be found online in… [Read More]

by Anju Sharma It shocked me to see the picture my daughter took of me.  We went to the park every evening. She played with a friend from school who lived close by while I walked with the friend’s mother. We had met through the children, and like our children, took to each other well.  My… [Read More]

Memory, 1978, Rita Deanin AbbeyAcrylic on canvas60 x 70 inchesArt Series: Desert Space Series (Paintings) 1977–1979© Robert Rock Belliveau and Rita Deanin Abbey Foundation Editor’s Note: “We live to collect experiences, not things.” Whenever I hear that familiar saying, I’m reminded of the preciousness and elusiveness of the present moment, but at the same time,… [Read More]

Editor’s Note: For the last three years, our endeavors to rebuild our world have yielded mixed results. As we do so, many look forward to beginning life anew and seizing the opportunity to create a better tomorrow. Some of us find ourselves yearning for the days that seem behind us. Others envision retracing their steps… [Read More]