Poetry
When the desert highway freezes over in the dead of night,you can lay on that cold-soaked mattress in the truckbed,you can watch
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Martha McCollough’s new book, Trash Witch, is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books in February 2025. She is the author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry
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Loosen Cogs Gardens Gravel & Glass I envision layers of affronts & exaggerations— working like mirrors— watching disaffection creep in
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“—get on all fours and let me open the floor of you. Let me break your case and tie you to
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Though it should mean without bears,bearless means barren. The opposites of word, according to thesaurus.com,question, silence, breach, break, quiet. Quixotic comes from
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After “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith Life is short, and I cannot keep thisfrom my children. Life ends with one breath,and my
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You never realize how little you know about death until someone dies and you’re left picking up the ashes. I mean that
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Here is what happened: On the eighth of August in the year 2010, a nineteen-year-old college student flips her car on the
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Sunlight illuminated our bare skin, the air briney. The dog whined at the door. Their body
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A Note on Nakedness: In my writing, bodies bend and fold; hands encircle hips, hold onto sheets; mouths make music or
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In 6th grade, a small group of boys started carrying around little, red laser beams on keyless keyrings. They were small
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Child of my body, you are from me. I gave birth to you. Yet you are from another time,another place. My mother
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Gemma gets what she wants. All of the girls learn this, one way or another. When Violet has the nerve to take
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The other day, I read an article that reminded me of what happened with David. I was on the bus, skimming my
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The man who kept a book in his pants came by it honestly. That is to say, Terrance did not simply see
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On the morning of his death, Dumont is late. We don’t blame him—we like Dumont. There’s no denying he has a sweetness
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Ping-pong is great foreplay, I tell you one night. You’re already in bed, while I stand
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“Where’s the other instructor, the boy?” Renee said. It was day one of Women’s Wellness Camp, which
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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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