How I Wrote It: We Left the Garden

Charles Simic famously said that the prose poem “has the unusual distinction of being regarded with suspicion not only by…

Battle of the Bards

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” —W. H. Auden A recent…

Their eyes were on me like little cocktail cherries swirling around the glass. Fat with moisture, almost pink, And I…

Books Read: Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation by Emily Van Duyne, Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, The Obscene Madame D…

Author’s Note: This morning, at 4:23am, my little brother was born. There are twenty-seven years between us, and this is…

Author’s Note: ‘Aberconwy Fable’ was originally published in the Bel Espirit Newspaper. I am a frequent writer for their magazine,…

In response to the 2024 Presidential Election Pumpkins sallow on the doorstep of mono America.A womb is now a rental…

Books Read: New York City 1979 by Kathy Acker, Modern Nature by Derek Jarman, The Haunting of Hill House by…

Exit Satan’s Men Cento April is the colonnade of rain keeping us warm with dried tubers. Between rosed lips, stillness…

The funeral eye sleeps like a criminal Sources: