Essay

White Witchery

By Elissa Washuta February 14, 2019

I just want a version of the occult that isn’t built on plunder, but I suspect that if we could excise the stolen pieces, there would be nothing left.

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Interview

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty

By Regan Penaluna January 30, 2019

The philosopher on how our appearance intolerance hinders ideas and human flourishing

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Poetry

The Meal

Poetry by Gemma Gorga, translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin January 10, 2019

death reviews the menu for the umpteenth time, / repeats our names between its teeth

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Poetry

/ˈməT͟Hər/

Poetry by Tiana Nobile December 21, 2018

We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron.

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Poetry

Blind River

Poetry by Diane Mehta December 13, 2018

We have long ties to sunlight, / equations that always solve for equality.

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Interview

Tyrese Coleman: Writing the Truth, Unbound by Genre

By Sarah Kasbeer December 5, 2018

The author of How to Sit discusses her mixed genre, multi-generational essays about black girlhood, womanhood, trauma, and triumph.

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Poetry

The Weight of the Sun

Poetry by Charlotte Pence November 21, 2018

I like being / reminded that we all began in dark and stars

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Poetry

River

By Amy Roa November 14, 2018

Then one of them kissed a live, flopping catfish and said it was her husband now.

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Fiction

Grace

Fiction by Elle Nash October 30, 2018

My body began to itch, as if the unease I felt about the wolf spider was somehow moving from the inside of my body to the outside.

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Lives

Late-Life Love

By Susan Gubar October 23, 2018

Old lovers know that love does not conquer all, that our intimacy cannot establish a safe haven somewhere, someplace, for us.

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Poetry

Little Mouse

Poetry by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Daniele Pantano October 18, 2018

I stood still and said: What is this? / Why do you lie here so quietly?

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