Blood Oranges
July 24, 2019
I watched my skin split, tender and pliant as fruit.
Guernica
Bodies & Nature
Lives
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.
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.
Poetry
Ontological
March 27, 2019
I am the name behind the names, remembering / my origins at the formation of the world.
AudioPoetry
Auto-Immune
February 27, 2019
I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes.
Essay
What Remains
February 21, 2019
How can I write a history of myself without remembering? And why am I compelled to?
Fiction
Major Long Talks to His Horse
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.
Poetry
Swimming Pool
February 18, 2019
I accept everything. I renounce everything. / I sink into everything, clothed only in a wet beard.
Essay
White Witchery
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.
Interview
Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty
January 30, 2019
The philosopher on how our appearance intolerance hinders ideas and human flourishing
Poetry
/ˈməT͟Hər/
December 21, 2018
We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron.
Poetry
Blind River
December 13, 2018
We have long ties to sunlight, / equations that always solve for equality.
Interview
Tyrese Coleman: Writing the Truth, Unbound by Genre
December 5, 2018
The author of How to Sit discusses her mixed genre, multi-generational essays about black girlhood, womanhood, trauma, and triumph.
Poetry
The Weight of the Sun
November 21, 2018
I like being / reminded that we all began in dark and stars
Lives
Late-Life Love
October 23, 2018
Old lovers know that love does not conquer all, that our intimacy cannot establish a safe haven somewhere, someplace, for us.
Poetry
Little Mouse
October 18, 2018
I stood still and said: What is this? / Why do you lie here so quietly?
Essay
When a Scar Is a Choice
October 12, 2018
A former athlete reflects on the physical reminders of her years on the court.
Poetry
The Stone in the River
October 1, 2018
When we rose up from the murky water / we'd scale it like lizards.
Fiction
What We Can Learn from Ancient Asexuals
July 31, 2018
He ran his fingertips over the walls as he passed, as if it were a new wall to him and he wanted to learn about it, as if it kept him attached to earth, as if he might otherwise lift up slowly and never land again.
AudioPoetry
Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation
June 25, 2018
One simulation to another, am I wrong.
Interview
Porochista Khakpour: Bodily Chaos
June 13, 2018
The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.
Lives
Animals Died at Our House, and Other Things that Burn or Wear Away
May 7, 2018
There was the time I found an entire horse or cow skeleton laid neatly on top of the shed roof. When I asked my brothers what it was doing there, they looked at me patiently and said, We found it in the desert.
Lives
Hello Blood: The Dance of Miscarriage
May 7, 2018
The baby stayed in the desert. I myself stayed in darkness for a long time.
Essay
Naked in Death Valley
May 7, 2018
Some facts, notes, data, information, statistics, and statements on the hot spring at Lake Tecopa.
AudioPoetry
[My cadastre of flesh]
April 30, 2018
My cadastre of flesh / dissects me right to the bone
Essay
What Sharp Teeth You Have
April 23, 2018
I know how to stay safe among lions in the wild. Around men of my own species, things feel more complicated.
AudioPoetry
Edge of the Wild
April 4, 2018
I am so afraid of being troubled and alone at the end of this world
Essay
How Much Easier to Hate
March 15, 2018
A formerly incarcerated writer reflects on what prison can do to a person.
Interview
Carmen Maria Machado’s Beautiful Bad Dreams
February 19, 2018
The author of Her Body and Other Parties talks about queerness, writing good sex scenes, and what scares her the most.
Essay
Mind the Gap
February 13, 2018
Fertility challenges after a successful first child often go unspoken.
Fiction
The Details Will Be Ours
January 31, 2018
You meet someone, you fall in love, you get married, you buy a house with three bedrooms, you have two babies, you remodel your kitchen, then you die.
Fiction
The Restless
December 13, 2017
But just because I’m dead doesn’t mean I don’t have things to do. For instance, I’m having a really hard time finding my leg.
Fiction
Neon in Daylight
December 6, 2017
He was in one of those black holes of boozed memory loss, actually inside it.
AudioPoetry
Where Papi’s Angel Speaks to Me About Love
November 29, 2017
mijo—i know you have seen the night / as an excuse to hold your body like a bottle
Fiction
Frangipani
October 30, 2017
My lover has tied a vine to his ankle and is going to throw himself over a cliff at dawn, with three of the natives.
Essay
Not That Story
October 28, 2017
This is a story about what girls must learn and how dangerous it can feel to learn it.
Essay
Search and Destroy
October 24, 2017
My daughter has bugs living in her hair. It is my job to kill them.
Interview
Madelyn Kent: How to Write Without Ambition and Resistance
October 19, 2017
The teacher on facilitating how to find the place before language.
Poetry
Psalm of the Fire Starter
September 20, 2017
"I fled to oceans, I wandered / and found flesh— / some to eat, some to undress."
Fiction
Captain Q Is Dead
September 18, 2017
“They were out of money. Two scaffold monkeys chasing work. But too often it was down a hole, mucking street sewers beside convicts.”
Report
The Marsh at the End of the World
September 6, 2017
Wetlands are some of the world’s greatest carbon sinks, and they're starting to rot: from Maine, an investigation of an ecosystem on the brink.
Essay
Hunting for Morels, Finding a Mess
July 11, 2017
Scrounging for wild mushrooms, but discovering something else.
Interview
Leslie T. Sharpe: If the Critters Fail, We Are All Going to Fail
July 3, 2017
The naturalist on our vital relationship to wildlife, economic arguments for preservation, and why nature is “America’s moral compass.”
Interview
Interrogating the Limits of Trauma Language
July 1, 2017
A conversation on sexual abuse narratives in art making and storytelling
Interview
Roxane Gay: Hunger Is a State of Being
June 26, 2017
The genre-spanning writer on oppressed and unruly bodies, and her new memoir, Hunger.
Poetry
[to lick the skin of the water with a tongue]
June 26, 2017
how to augur anything / but crooked miracles / anyway
Poetry
King Vultures
June 12, 2017
Here comes the hard part, the Land of the Dead / floating just above my head
Comics
Warmer: A Collection of Comics about Climate Change for the Fearful & Hopeful
June 8, 2017
An excerpt from the forthcoming anthology, edited by Madeleine Witt and Andrew White.
Essay
Ruthless River: Lost on the Piranha-Infested Rio Madre de Dios
May 29, 2017
Fitz and I met the day before Woodstock; four years later we were lost and starving on a raft, wondering where things went so disastrously wrong.
Essay
The Hunted
May 15, 2017
The desert crossers move like flocks of birds. They scramble through washes at night, drinking from stock tanks gone green with slime.
Poetry
The Glass Door
May 8, 2017
Somebody guessed just what life was like, / and then made a pill for it.
Comics
Under the Water
May 4, 2017
A comic about baptism, the rising seas, and the end of the world.
Essay
Renegade Canyon
April 24, 2017
A pilgrimage in the Mojave, to a vortex thrumming with spiritual energy and military jets.
Fiction
Black Rock City
April 17, 2017
Maybe I fell asleep or maybe I was abducted by aliens or maybe the drugs hadn’t worn off, but I lost myself and only came back when Quipster unzipped my tent. “The Man burns in an hour. Can you be ready?”
Fiction
Evacuation
April 3, 2017
I did Nathaniel’s laundry for him. Try hard not to take that the wrong way. He didn’t ask me to, but I spent all day without him, among so few of his things.
Interview
Blair Braverman: Natural and Unnatural Violence
March 29, 2017
The polar explorer on navigating danger.
Fiction
Lizard-Baby
March 20, 2017
I placed a hand on my belly, on the hard shell forming beneath the skin.
Interview
Melissa Febos: Detaching to Connect
February 27, 2017
The author on authenticity, ancestry, and multiple selves.
Interview
Dr. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee: Toward a More Precise Genetics
February 27, 2017
The medical anthropologist on the imperative to move beyond race in genetic research and the explanatory power of life experience and inequality.
Review
Who Is You, Man?
February 24, 2017
The black masks of Frank Ocean, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W.E.B. Du Bois in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight.
Interview
Ron Shigeta: We All Need Biotechnology
February 20, 2017
The biotech entrepreneur on using lab-grown food and other forms of biomimicry to solve global crises.
Essay
Mother Science
February 6, 2017
Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.
Interview
Sara Hendren: The Body Adaptive
February 6, 2017
How rethinking disability and assistive tech can make the world more functional and more fun.
AudioPoetry
Number Love, My Taxes
January 23, 2017
how we are so many dependents, / how one headlight will do for now
Fiction
The Basic Conditions
January 16, 2017
He thinks, This must be where the killers stopped for cigarettes. She'd be the one who saw them.
AudioPoetry
Neck of the Woods
December 26, 2016
One girl might leave a trail of crumbs / Behind her. One might leave a line of poured-out gasoline.
