Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her work is forthcoming in Poet Lore, the Potomac Review, The Cortland Review, and Unsplendid, is currently featured on The Pinch, and has been published in the Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review,...
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Jennie Malboeuf reads New Town
Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her work is forthcoming in Poet Lore, the Potomac Review, The Cortland Review, and Unsplendid, is currently featured on The Pinch, and has been published in the Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review,...
Arkava Das reads evening ballasted with sunset
Arkava Das lives in Delhi with his wife, Nidhi, and his father. Most of his work owes something to bilingualism — a condition that frequently involves balancing two possible worlds — a Will Alexander with a Joy Goswami, a Vasubandhu with a Guattari. He has some work...
Amy Wright reads Acres Green©
Amy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal and the author of four poetry chapbooks. She received a Peter Taylor fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a...
Amy Woschek Schmidt reads Filling the Feeder with a Sobering Sweet
Amy Woschek Schmidt’s work has been published or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Ruminate, Camroc Press Review, and Calyx, among other journals. She has been a finalist for the Janet McCabe Poetry Prize and is the recipient of an Arrowhead Regional Arts Grant. ...
Colin Dodds reads four Spill-O Poems
Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. His poetry has appeared in more than a hundred and seventy publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of several novels, including WINDFALL and...
Phyllis Brotherton reads Ice Storm, 2001
Phyllis Brotherton has a long career accounting for things. A late blooming writer, she received her MA in Creative Nonfiction in 2000 from Fresno State University and is currently a 3rd year MFA student there. Her work has appeared in the online journals Pithead...
E. J. Evans reads A Story about Winter
E. J. Evans is a poet and essayist living in Cazenovia, New York. His work has been published in Confrontation, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, Hazmat Lit Review, and other literary journals. He is currently at work on a book of autobiographical essays.
Johnathan Harper reads Dinner for the Ducks
Johnathan Harper lives in Syracuse, New York, where he stays well away from duck ponds. He has been published in The Queer South: Essays and Poems, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Small Por[t]ions, etc. His chapbook Airplanes to Nowhere was a finalist in The Burnside Review's...
Elizabeth Savage reads When in Autumn
Elizabeth Savage is author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose (2011), Grammar (2012), and Idylliad (2015), all from Furniture Press Books. The current issue of Verse features her dossier-chapbook of twenty-six poems, titled Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers. Her...
New poetry/videos by Karen An-hwei Lee
Karen An-hwei Lee (“Letter from Orange Country,” Issue 4) has a new chapbook, What the Sea Earns for a Living forthcoming from Quaci Press in December 2014. She has also produced a new poetry-video, which makes its debut here. FIRE ON ANGEL ISLAND for the...
Mara Naselli reads My Brief Suspension of Judgment in the World of Bad Art
Mara Naselli is an editor and writer. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, The Kenyon Review, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. She writes about literature for 3 Quarks Daily (www.3quarksdaily.com).
Aaron Shurin reads I Could See…
Aaron Shurin's most recent books are King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays, and Citizen, a collection of prose poems, both from City Lights Books. He's Professor Emeritus in the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
Nels Hanson reads “Two Rivers” and “Orchid and Butterfly”
Nels Hanson has worked as a farmer, teacher, and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, Pushcart Prize nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014, and has appeared in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review,...
Michael Shou-Yung Shum reads Ask the Hydrangea
Michael Shou-Yung Shum reads Ask the Hydrangea
Nicholas Alexander Hayes reads Declension
Nicholas Alexander Hayes reads Declension
New videos by Maureen Alsop
Maureen Alsop has completed a 4-part short-video series.The first, “Sweepspear,” features an excerpt from “Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” which was first published in Your Impossible Voice 3.The second, “Terrestris,” was posted at YIV in April.Parts 3 and 4...
Karen An-hwei Lee reads Letter from Orange County: Twelve Fragments
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her book of literary criticism, Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora:...
Bryce Emley reads To the Reader (Assuming She Is Carly Rae Jepsen)
Bryce Emley is a freelance writer/editor and has served on staff with The Florida Review, H_NGM_N, and BULL. His writing can be found in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, The Pinch, Pleiades, and other places; he writes regularly for Matador Network.
Monica Macansantos reads The Day I Was a Comfort Woman
Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Masters Review, Five Quarterly, TAYO Literary...
Peter Burzynski reads Emeralds and Olives
Peter Burzynski is a first-year PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA in Poetry from The New School University, and an MA in Polish Literature from Columbia...
Racquel Goodison reads Night Music
Racquel Goodison is an Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She has been a resident at Yaddo and the Saltonstall Arts Colony, as well as a recipient of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the...
Michael du Plessis reads The Jeweler
Michael du Plessis is the author of the novel The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012) and the chapbook Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Chicago: Transparent Tiger Press, 2007). His creative work has appeared in Narrativity, LitNet, and NatBrut, and with...
Contributor News: Maureen Alsop
Maureen Alsop (“Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” Issue 3) has new poetry forthcoming in the journals DIAGRAM, burnt district, Superstition Review, Glint, Thirteen Mynah Birds, and in the anthology Songs for a Passbook Torch. She has also reviewed Brian Teare's...
Jaclyn Watterson reads A Landlord Is an Act
Jaclyn Watterson's recent work appears in places like Birkensnake, The Collagist, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives with one cat in Salt Lake City.
Jaclyn Watterson reads All of Them Comely
Jaclyn Watterson's recent work appears in places like Birkensnake, The Collagist, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives with one cat in Salt Lake City.
Geraldine Connolly reads Aileron
Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her poems and articles have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, and The Cortland Review. She has been awarded two NEA...
Jon Riccio reads The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe
Jon Riccio studied viola performance at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Music. A current MFA student at the University of Arizona, his work has appeared in Bird's Thumb and Bear River Review.
Siamak Vossoughi reads Worth It To Be Wrong
Siamak Vossoughi was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in London, Orange County, and Seattle. He attended the University of Washington and then moved to San Francisco because it seemed like a good city to be a writer. He writes short stories and he has written one...
Richard Chiem reads Trying to Lock All Windows and Doors
Richard Chiem is the author of You Private Person, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler Books. His work has appeared in Thought Catalog, City Arts Magazine, and Everyday Genius, among other places. In 2008, he survived a car accident. He is currently...