Forbidden Fruit, by Stanley Gazemba When most people talk about immersion today, they refer to it as an element of a visual medium. This makes some degree of sense, given how visual our species…
Mouths, by Claire Marie Stancek Review by Kamden Hilliard Stancek’s MOUTHS is, well, mouthy: obsessed with the physics, politics, violences, psychologies, and musics of the oral. This mouthyness, though, is still concerned with its…
Confetti-Ash, Selected Poems of Salvador Novo Translated by Anthony Seidman and David Shook In 1581, Sir Philip Sydney completed the The Defence of Posey. It was a response to an argument from a Puritan…
Inside V, by Paula Priamos Death. Taxes. The onslaught of summer. With the turn of June, Los Angeles is assailed with super-heated layers of plasma-smog, anginaiac freeways, and Angelyne sightings. The rituals begin, paramount being…
The End of Pink by Kathryn Nuernberger Review by Julia Landrum Whether exploring P.T. Barnum’s FiJi Mermaid feeling like a “tease,” a woman trying to recover after giving birth, animal magnetism, Benjamin Franklin, the symbolical…
My country, tonight by Josué Guébo It is an artist’s privilege and curse to have the opportunity to render the horrific beautiful. Privilege because it is an opportunity to illuminate and to express even…
Apocalypse All The Time, by David S. Atkinson “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” That’s probably because I have a copy of David S. Atkinson’s Apocalypse…
The Consequences of My Body, by Maged Zaher There is an assumption that a lot of us hold, myself included, that existence follows a linear progression. Sometimes, this manifests as an immediate experience of…
Genevieves by Henry Hoke One of the strangest criticisms that is still levied against fiction is that it serves as some form of addictive and detrimental escapism. There is a multitude of problems with…
Popular Music by Kelly Schirmann The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Review by Katharine Coldiron In the middle of writing an ekphrastic novella based on an album I loved, I…
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, by Patricia Lockwood Review by T.M. Lawson There are too many (or maybe not enough) words to state my worship of Patricia Lockwood. I forget if it was her infamous…
Dust Bunny City Written by Bud Smith, Illustrated by Rae Buleri I believe I will always find instances of men baring their emotional vulnerabilities to be beautiful. That is not to say that it…