including the one who spelled it with y. All I talk about is wealth-hoarding w/ Chinese characteristics, not to be confused with love-deprivation. Some auntie somewhere is learning the importance of saying “I love you” to her children & grandchildren. It’s that important to some of us now. More...
Translated from Slovenian by Lukas Debeljak I had literally fallen off the couch. Lying prone, studying the leafy landscape of the closed orb, where I had planted my grasses and sedges, I saw something move amidst the stems. Something green. I flinch, turning in astonishment from my position...
We meet in the morning // and the first thing you say is // back in the 16th and 17th centuries // “morning” used to refer to the whole day. // We are unusual people // we find honour in language history // sanctity in semantics // and tend to exclaim about etymology // and today? // Today will be...
Reviewed by Krystale Tremblay-Moll Daniel Zomparelli, Super Castle Fun Park (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026), 308pp., $21.95. Daniel Zomparelli’s Super Castle Fun Park is a masterclass in juxtaposition: leisure and grief are interwoven in ways that are both surprising and heartrending. Readers witness a...
Get your poems ready for a chance to win a cash prize and publication in Plenitude Magazine! Plenitude’s new Summer Poetry Contest will run August 1 to September 21 September 24, 2026, and will be open to LGBTQ2S+ writers at any stage of their career, anywhere in the world. The contest judge is...
Two months in a psych ward, 2008 Do not crush. Do not split. Do not chew. Pills in tiny paper cups each meal. They know how well you sleep. They’re weighing you. We all know the surveillance state’s not new. And oh, when the psychosis hits, it’s real. Do not crush. Do not split. Do not chew. Don’t...
