Read More: A brief Q&A with Claire Scott Stories Don’t Always Stand Straight The film director, editing, cutting, redacting, renouncing. What’s left on the floor we never see. What’s spliced in looks almost seamless. Yet sometimes we discover disturbing gaps: a fear of orange, nausea at the smell of leather. Clips of history on the […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Eva Lomski They bought a split-level shack on land beside the ocean outside Warrnambool, a town small enough to live in, yet big enough to hide. It was big, flat dairy country, and the wind smelled of either sea or grass. He’d work and surf, while she would take […]
Of course, it’s the dead girl who gets the attention. In this case, my sister. THE LIVING ROOM On the fireplace mantle is a blown up photograph of Sharon, actually the cover of Boulder Magazine, which did a feature story on her masterminding the recycling program at our high school. Her black curls fall all […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Charlotte d’Huart Lars is loping up the garden path toward me, face flushed, smile expectant, and I know he’s seen the whale. Catching his breath, he leans down to kiss me on his way inside, stamping sweat on my lips that I wipe away. I hear the squeak of […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Saba Z Husain Consider the Day A light washes the garden with the hopefulness of exchanges, a blustery wind swings the door open as if some big-hearted soul walked in and fall leaves—drained of life— rain down from the tree in continuous celebration, then huddle on the porch, or […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Allison A. deFreese Poems from Archivo Dickinson/The Dickinson Archive by María Negroni Translated from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreese Translator’s Note: The centerpiece of María Negroni’s experimental triptych about solitary and singular artists is The Dickinson Archive, a series of 72 short meditations exploring the creative process through […]
Read More: A brief interview with John Sibley Williams Accord I’d like to think some things cannot be measured in black & blue, wild vs. broken, flags, plastic jugs of drinking water hauled up from the not entirely polluted stream when the pipes go rusty. America, I still consider your shadows poorly angled light, like […]
Read More: A brief interview with Susannah W. Simpson The Arithmetic of Earth, Wind & Fire Glass, after glass, after glass of cheap, pink champagne…who kept count? Those Wednesday Ladies’ Nights we divided the sum of our two decades on this blue planet with our feet. Serpentine Fire was the rubric as we, giddy, arm in arm, […]
“The Party is Not The Same,” “Eden is Overrated,” and “Is This What It Comes to at the End” by Claire Scott appeared in Issue 23 and can be read here. We’d love to hear more about these poems. Now in my seventies, I am thinking a lot more about aging and death. “Is This […]
Read More: A brief interview with John Van Kirk The horsechestnut tree was unclimbable from the ground—the trunk was too big around and didn’t fork until too high—but if you shinnied up the sassafras tree next to it, and then leaned over, you could cross into the horsechestnut’s crown. From there you could go up and […]