By Queen Mob

Wordless Review: Firewatch

Force Ourselves to Meet

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Yesterday I kept asking myself, “How do you build trust online?” You can’t.

Migrations

/ Joe Linker / Misc
History is an argument whose occasion has lapsed, the audience mesmerized, hypnotized, and a quick exit of pathos, the persuasion a torn curtain.

Mosque, Tokyo

/ Setsuko Adachi / Misc
“Prayers are like breathing to me” says a Turkish imam who works as a store clerk in a halal store in Shinjuku.

LatinxLit: Mónica Teresa Ortiz

/ Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes / Interviews
There is great writing beyond the U.S. that is, indeed, beyond the margins.

Forget the Other

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
On my last night in Germany, a young woman who came to my opening, was dancing on the dance floor at the bar we all went to after.

Interview: Catch Business

/ Jon-Michael Frank / Interviews
I was manipulated. I was abused. I was stolen from and lied to, over and over again.

A Big Surprise

/ Queen Mob / Misc
you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk

Dear Poetry Editor

/ Ruben Quesada / Interviews
Raina J. León On perspectives about poetry To those who do not identify as poets, Poetry […]

Selling ‘The Big Short’ in Three Songs

/ Queen Mob / Media
About a month ago, the Producers Guild Awards handed Best Feature to The Big Short. […]

Burst!!

Interview: Katherine Osborne

/ Niina Pollari / Interviews
I like poetry where you are caught off guard or have to pay attention, are made to pay attention.

Crazy Funky Stoopid Fresh

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Reclaiming Days of Love, Sex & Whips

/ Gem Blackthorn / Sex
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone and some of us, survived with a trail of candy G-strings, burnt out vibrator batteries, and wrinkled sex coupons.

Nonfiction Review: Love Among the Archives

/ Cecily Erin Hill / Reviews
Sir George Scharf was a confirmed bachelor, an artistic director, a nearly-professional diner-out, a Victorian […]

Fiction Review: Papi by Rita Indiana

/ Diego Báez / Reviews
Rita Indiana—also known as La Montra, the monster, in her role as the lead singer […]

Interview: Ann Tweedy

/ Mary Kasimor / Interviews
I saw the world as a capacious place where one could be many things at once—only later did I realize how much energy it takes to have multiple vocations simultaneously.