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Genre Bender Literature Mackenzie Wiebe

Dresser (Drawers)

Mackenzie Wiebe is a writer interested in texture, sensation, and ornament. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently organize the Emerging Writers Reading Series. They have a chapbook with Armistice Press called Wandering Teeth.

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Kevin Shaw Literature Poetry

Buzz Cut

I once thought of marriage as an exoplanet in the habitable zone of another star; I knew it was capable of sustaining life, I just didn’t want to live there. I’d taken astronomy lessons from my mom’s copy of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. How tidy the binary seemed back then, before...

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Literature Loch Baillie Poetry

Traces of Nowhere

I have seen Twin Peaks exactly once in my life, in an apparition of a sunroom. ◊ It was like watching dust settle, how bored I was, piecing together why I was here and what I wanted and what this would mean to me in the end. ◊ The hot itch of orange tweed against the backs of my legs, an irritating...

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Literature Notabeanie Poetry

My Grandfather’s Ghost

I am become my grandfather’s ghost: Crumbs over the kitchen sink into eternity The children of hunger, The Daughters Insomniac, Nobody ever loved you like a good pot of stew. My grandfather wore a messenger Hat, a black leather jacket. He is alive now, like a ghost; I, his cool fibers...

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Creative Non-fiction Literature MJ Holec

On Drowned Trees

The common loon has four calls—the tremolo, the yodel, the wail, and the hoot. Each call communicates an emotion, a desire, or a warning. When I return to Wisconsin, the place where I grew up and the place where my grandpa’s family has lived and died for generations, I listen to the loons calling...

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