Beautiful in the Distance
June 24, 2019
The tick doesn’t know that it is strong enough to kill a full-grown human. It only knows that it is hungry.
Guernica
A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics
Bodies & Nature
Lives
Interview
Becoming a Map for Survival: Interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
June 18, 2019
The writer on resisting racist ableist erasure in her latest essay collection about disability justice.
Fiction
The Paper Wasp
June 3, 2019
The sun was ruthless, impressing a sense of danger with each step I took away from the road. The heat was primordial, baking through my skin, drying my muscle and bones, desiccating everything but my darkest, wettest core.
Poetry
Dream Seminar
May 22, 2019
Every dream is crowded with faces and bodies— / there are more dreamed people than there are us.
Lives
Letters to Mothers: Crones, Hags, Witches, and Killjoys
May 15, 2019
Mother’s Day is a joke we are all in on, and yet it continues—straight-faced, deadly serious, and poisoned.
Lives
Squirrel King
May 9, 2019
The city didn’t put stop signs at our suburban corner until I was thirteen. Despite the reckless driving, no one was ever killed. Pet dogs and stray cats weren’t so lucky. Neither were the squirrels.
Poetry
A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes
May 8, 2019
Yes / body, you are owed a whole lake.
Lives
Life and Death in West Virginia
April 5, 2019
I’m in a haunted place, in my home and in my body.