This is where, in the poem,/I say that I am descended/from these motherfuckers
Author: Daniel Nester
Essayist, journalist, poet, editor, and teacher.
Three Poems by JC Reilly
A Ferret, a Stoat, and a Polecat//go into a bar. Wait, it isn’t that kind/of poem.
“Bad News” by Amy King
She doesn’t know what the snow does/ to her pipes. But you do.
“A lot of corny shit is true”: An Interview with Jaime Fountaine
There are as many ways to grow up as there are people, which is what makes these individual coming-of-age stories infinitely interesting and relatable.
Three pieces from “skirt disaster” by Marina Blitshteyn
i loved my young life once. it thrummed with inner mischief, some transgressions maybe but all tongue, all textures, all translated through that funnel in my head.
Excerpt from ‘The Couples’ by Nicole Callihan
Let someone bang her champagne glass with the pretty cutlery your in-laws gifted you. Or bang your own.
“recipe for a massacre: tulsa 1921” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
a lynch mob. a defense mob. a gunshot. hate. a gunshot. hate. a deputizing of hundreds.
Excerpts from ‘Extant Fragments’ by steve dalachinsky
there is a confluence influenced apparently by a fluidity of music.
“A Highly Subjective and Sometimes Contradictory Alphabet for the Young and Aspiring Professional Writer” by Marc Spitz
Be humble. Do not be a dick. Do this for the sake of your soul but also for the sake of your career.
“Neighborhood Watch, circa 2009” by Susan Rukeyser
I gave you a chance. How many notes did I leave, before you pushed me to this?
