A month into my second year of university, something attaches itself to my thoughts. I am lying in bed in the blue October night when I am suddenly stricken with the knowledge that I am not good. That I will never be good. That to continue to sustain my existence is unjustifiable. It’s just me and...
rode my horse into the sala rossa noise show— lemon yellow crop top, bumble bee stockings a thirst for blood reimaged as gentle dancing haltering hordes bellow for more discordant jazz i refill my glass with a pabst from my pocket on stage a woman in polite dress crafts crackling synths by hovering...
Announcing the winner of our Summer Poetry Contest! Join us in congratulating Sadie McCarney, whose poem, “At Broke Kid Summer Camp, We Taught Ourselves About Spirals,” was chosen as the $500 grand-prize winner from close to 200 individual poems submitted to our first-ever poetry contest. Here’s...
Announcing the shortlist for our first-ever Summer Poetry Contest! Misha Solomon selected this shortlist from a longlist of eleven poems, as put together from close to 200 poems by our managing editor, Patrick Grace. Misha’s grand-prize winner selection will be announced November 1, so stay tuned...
Reviewed by Li Charmaine Anne Hollay Ghadery, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026), 200pp., $21.95. Loss is presumed as we age: the loss of ignorance along with a loss of innocence. Yet across countries, time periods, and generations, a new grandmother retains her childlike wonder—and...
Announcing the longlist for our first-ever Summer Poetry Contest! We received over 70 entries and close to 200 individual poems. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work – we are a very small literary magazine, and we can only thrive with the support of our readers and writers. Stay tuned...
