By Lauren Camp All I wanted was the haze of a worn gown of sleep after the scrape of that honey-sipped night. I laid backon the seat to the space around thinking, to the stitch of each parcel and limb. That night
Congratulations to Abeer Hoque, whose new novel in stories The Lovers and the Leavers is out now from HarperCollins India, Bengal Lights Books.From Bengal Lights Books, "Komola is a maid from rural Bangladesh working in Dhaka. 'Before You Eat' is the beginning of her...
By Lana Spendl At my friend’s bonfire on a chilly Southwestern night, a blond woman in Birkenstocks approached me and said that her name was Singing Humyn.“Singing Human?” I asked.“Singing Humyn, with a ‘y,’” she said. She was a shaman, she explained.Questions sprang...
Congratulations to Gillian Conoley, whose collection, Peace, was recently named a L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. Peace, published by Omnidawn, was also named one of the Academy of American Poets' Standout Books of 2014.
Christopher Kondrich has new poems appearing in Green Mountains Review, The California Journal of Poetics and in Cimarron Review.