“A World to Come”: Sarah Giragosian Reads Natayla Sukhonos’ Poetry Collection Sunlight Trapped in Stone

“Mount St. Helens in ashes,” writes Natalya Sukhonos in her newest poetry collection Sunlight Trapped in Stone, setting the scene fora dazzling ars poetica: “Enter the ballooning spider / who sends…

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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

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Fiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads Zeeva Bukai’s Epistolary Novel The World Between

Zeeva Bukai’s The World Between is a collection of short letters from a woman in an Israeli sanatorium to her husband back in New York. She reflects on the breakdown of their marriage and her early…

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Fiction Review: Sayantani Roy Reads Glen Pourciau’s Story Collection Under

Glen Pourciau has a knack for crafting moments where ordinary characters find themselves in strange quandaries. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter tells us that the best stories have characters …

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New Side A Prose Poetry: “A Meditation on Birds and Other Things After Watching It Was Just an Accident” by Sarah Dickenson Snyder

A Meditation on Birds and Other Things After Watching It Was Just an Accident I know very little about Iran, and yet there are familiar crow sounds in the beginning of the movie where cars dart on …

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Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams

In Cycle of Dreams, Eric Weiskott presents this notion of an individual on a quest. It’s a common notion in literature to be on a quest, whether that quest be spiritual or a journey from one physic…

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Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams

In Cycle of Dreams, Eric Weiskott presents this notion of an individual on a quest. It’s a common notion in literature to be on a quest, whether that quest be spiritual or a journey from one physic…

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“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou

Grief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…

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“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou

Grief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…

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The Future Has Poetry: Three from Arcanum by Daniel Beauregard

a drunkeneye roamsthe hearthwherean idiotsitslike a fishout of water the fire is unlitand the idiot is cold what an idiot! * down by Frog Lakethere’s an old stonethat looks like acat’s head a defla…

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Original Fiction for Flavor Town USA: “Metropolis” by Michelle Bitting

Joan at the Château Élysée, 1929, Hollywood, CA By the time they are ready for me to rehearse on the rooftop, I’ve already eaten two plates of sand dabs smothered in lemon butter sauce and a mounta…

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New Bad Survivalist Short Fiction: “Small Arousals” by Lily Gareth Cunningham

Every morning I crawled out our kitchen window and photographed my ass next to our street’s latest road sign. This was my full-time job.  “NEW: NO  parking on Franklin, 10am to 4pm, Wedne…

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Poetry from the Future: “Landlords” by Grace Lynn

Here’s how you inherit the future. You stand here searching for lost parts but only find people rehearsing gravity. They make syllables of promise then rise into air. They are pretty & distant …

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Two Haunted Passages Prose Poems by Jason Davidson

Chamomile I dreamt last night of the stubbed toe. On my way home from the election, I stop at the smallest bank. After I step inside, I yell somewhat loudly: This is a stick-up, everyone put your h…

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Fiction Review: Adam Stutz Reads Arqueles Vela’s Posthumous Collection Señorita Etcetera

“The door of the Café opens onto the most populous avenue, riotous with sun. Nevertheless, upon crossing this threshold hanging as if from the last rung of reality, one seems to enter the sub…

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Book Review: Jen Schneider Reads Constantia “Connie” Munda’s Family Court Docunovel Mother’s Day in the Empire State

Constantia “Connie” Munda’s Mother’s Day in the Empire State: Or, an Answer to the Arraignment of Women is a family-court novel that dismisses the comforts of home and of an idealized narrative of …

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“Four Paintings by ______ (1928-1999)”: A Haunted, Microfictive Gallery by Addison Zeller

The Loud Aviatrix (1957) In the foreground, a crowd of well-wishers plug their ears and wince. A number of young girls seem particularly excited, judging from the jaunty angles of their novelty avi…

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“Four Paintings by ______ (1928-1999)”: A Haunted, Microfictive Gallery by Addison Zeller

The Loud Aviatrix (1957) In the foreground, a crowd of well-wishers plug their ears and wince. A number of young girls seem particularly excited, judging from the jaunty angles of their novelty avi…

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“How far the tree bends”: An Original Poem by Celia Lawren

Kill it! the children scream. A nightmare of black swirling shadows converge on the tree. They burn, hack, dismember limbs as high as they can reach, finally feeling tall. Torment is harder work th…

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New Poem by Holly Day: “Exhibit 421”

The heat given off by a nuclear bomb is so hot that it can bake a shadow into concrete, so that even when the person standing there, screaming, is gone, that last shadow of them standing there, scr…

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Fiction Review: Adam Stutz Reads Arqueles Vela’s Posthumous Collection Señorita Etcetera

“The door of the Café opens onto the most populous avenue, riotous with sun. Nevertheless, upon crossing this threshold hanging as if from the last rung of reality, one seems to enter the sub…

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Haunted Passages Hybrid by Cansu Açıkgöz: “Thursday, I Went to Pick Up the Dog”

Today is Thursday. I am going to pick up the dog. I had left him there for a few days. Maybe four. Maybe five. Along the way, the houses looked alike. Every antenna on the roofs leaned a little. Ea…

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“Without Explanation”: Megan Nichols Reviews Susan L. Leary’s Poetry Collection More Flowers

In More Flowers, Susan L. Leary doesn’t have to explain herself. Instead, she creates a psychological landscape in which the speaker careens between questioning and asserting, between the concrete …

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Haunted Passages Poetry: “One Thousand Ways to Die in a Cemetery” by Matt Zambito

Um, minus nine hundred ninety-nine?Zombies. Those total assholescrawling out of graves think love isthe taste of brains when the living alive knowit’s the art of a heart’s squeeze and releaseand ap…

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Four Cloud Visuals by Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin is a writer, musician, multimedia artist, and the author of 36 books of poetry, fiction, and essays. His novel, Yiddish for Pirates, was a national bestseller, was shortlisted for the G…

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Peter J. Kahn Talks to Poet & Artist Hosho McCreesh about His New Collection Psalms from the Badlands

The Hebrew psalms were songs of lament, a crying out for help, or hymns praising God. Hosho McCreesh, in his new book Psalms from the Badlands (DrunkSkull Books), loosely follows the tradition of t…

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