Lives

Letters to Mothers: Crones, Hags, Witches, and Killjoys

By Sophia Shalmiyev and Leni Zumas May 15, 2019

Mother’s Day is a joke we are all in on, and yet it continues—straight-faced, deadly serious, and poisoned.

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Lives

Squirrel King

By Steven A. Miller 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.

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Poetry

A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes

Poetry by Kemi Alabi May 8, 2019

Yes / body, you are owed a whole lake.

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Poetry

Frieze

Poetry by Erin Elizabeth Smith April 11, 2019

And I don't know then / how to disappear enough / for neither of us to see me

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Lives

Life and Death in West Virginia

By Christa Parravani April 5, 2019

I’m in a haunted place, in my home and in my body.

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Poetry

Ontological

Poetry by Peter Cooley March 27, 2019

I am the name behind the names, remembering / my origins at the formation of the world.

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AudioPoetry

Auto-Immune

By Destiny Birdsong February 27, 2019

I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes.

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Essay

What Remains

By Jacqueline Alnes February 21, 2019

How can I write a history of myself without remembering? And why am I compelled to?

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Fiction

Major Long Talks to His Horse

Fiction by Terese Svoboda February 20, 2019

Innumerable buffalo have the temerity to appear at a distance just as he is solving the problem of the design of a steam carriage. Link them together! he shouts to his horse.

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Poetry

Swimming Pool

Poetry by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry February 18, 2019

I accept everything. I renounce everything. / I sink into everything, clothed only in a wet beard.

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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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