Poetry
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.Now, water can flow or
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LM Brimmer is a co-editor of the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride (2019); their essays and poetry have recently appeared
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I’ve always balked at playing scalesbut I’ll stand on a girderhipshot in floral board shorts,a vintage weirdo pokingthe membrane between here and
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My heart, a jackalbecoming wild,for beholdingat a distance.⠀ I wake up unrelenting.I stay that way forever.⠀ No sound but a sirenfrom my
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A Short Film Starring Me at a Bathhouse I have a line of men waiting to see me. Inside, their hands extend
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Mending I watch her delicately wielda needle, coax threadthrough a beaten pairof my father’s Levis.We’re in the family room,with all its books.
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Having a car in the city is shameless if you really think about it. I would even go as far as to
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In December 2014, I had just completed my first semester of a creative writing MFA in Boston and was home for the
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You tried to color my hair at the kitchen sink the night we moved in together: a big man wielding a little
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I see a photograph of a human heart entirely drained of blood, its surface translucent. The aortic valve and pericardium membrane encapsulating
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Chaco Canyon yesterday, impulse after reading the Childs stuff. Many years of wanting to go. I thought it took 5 hours or
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I come home sad so I slice potatoes thin and fry them with oil and onions, keeping watch to flip at the
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Once upon a time, when a flatbread made from jowar flour called the bhakri was an item of great value, when all
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Once upon a time there was a whale who no one understood. She swam up and down the Pacific, calling out in
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The carnival had flattened out like a tarp over the grounds outside the Montana town only that morning, so no one had
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I got our mouse. In a glue-trap on the basement landing. I shined my cellphone and it tried to free itself by
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Rylan won’t change the lightbulb in the living room. She won’t sit down to read, watch a movie or play scrabble there,
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I didn’t stop to take the snapshot and now I can’t: the gas station’s mansard roof has been peeled off as part
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a
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Speaking to the The Guardian as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 (a prize he later won), Hungarian writer
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By Abby Dockter I am on another plane trip. Patchwork farms, webs of highways, wide rivers and furry green mountains, all pierced
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Animal Collection – I grasp for words to describe it. It is modern. It is postmodern. It is fables. It is magical
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The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter
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Jon Riccio interviews Samuel Rafael Barber about his new book, Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located Across Five Landfills, That if
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Jon Riccio interviews Robert Carr about his new book, The Unbuttoned Eye.
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"I feel that one of my missions in life is to chip away at the idea of human exceptionalism, the idea that
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Venita Blackburn, author of the short story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (her 2017 debut, published as a result of her
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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New
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What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to forms animated by
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