Issue 31 | Fall 2024
Our latest issue finds the doomsday clock ticking down twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely, floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
Guitar Hero
By Todd Clay Stuart
“Kenzie thinks the sun is a hoax but has no problem believing her cat can tell when she’s pregnant.”
The Last Lipstick Factory
By Dana Wall
“First, the sky forgot how to hold blue. It started at the horizons, a slow leaching of color like wet paper left in sun.”
Preface: Wild Rose Bush
By Wally Swist
“Almost no translation of “Lullaby” has disappointed me, but I have never found those translations adequate or fully accommodating of the rhythms, images, and lyrics that I felt, saw, and heard in the poetry.”
Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.
—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”
Latest Reviews
Featured Interview
Newest Essay
Exceeding Boundaries in Daisy Atterbury’s Multi-Genre Book, The Kármán Line
Review by Gina Pugliese
“On the far side of earthly existence, identity, borders, laws, and language lose their authority to shape reality even as the mathematical certainties of time and space persist.”
Review: Chella Courington’s Janet Hall
Review by John Brantingham
“Janet Hall has much to recommend it. Courington’s language and sense of place in this Southern town are brilliant, but as someone who has lived this lifestyle for my entire adult life, her characterization is where she shines.”
Review: Bluff by Danez Smith — or, specific audience required
Review by Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey
“In Bluff, Danez Smith (they/them) uses the full breadth of the poetic form to bring all of their complexities to a house of mirrors for an overdue conversation.”
Who By Fire
By Laila Amado
“In this story, we don’t die by fire. We don’t wake in the middle of the night to the screeching of the warning sirens on the phones under our pillows.”
