By Queen Mob

Let Me Clarify #4: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
My father fled Ukraine after World War II with only the proverbial shirt on his back. He met my mother in an Austrian displaced persons camp.

(Not) My Writing Desk

Bar Italia: Sleep Like an Italian

Rigor Samsa

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Letters & Essays
In the attention economy, we are all willing mayflies. Poetry, on the other hand, is how we extend the possibility of presence,

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
For a few seconds the moon vanished. People watched through dark lenses; from Santiago there was partial obscurity

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Jeremy Fernando / Misc
Writing is my primary mode —of not just expressing thought, but of thinking itself...

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Yahia Lababidi / Misc
A few years ago, I found a bird egg in a flower pot on my balcony and, shortly after, went bird mad...

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Alexandra Naughton / Misc
This place where I stand and wait for the bus every day is not my writing desk.

Let Me Clarify #3: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
In seventh grade, I fell under the spell of a perky blonde whose come-hither tongue caressed her glossy lips...

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Owen Vince / Misc
This is not my writing desk. It is the top floor of the Mosselprom building, Moscow.

Keepin It Chad #6

(Not) My Writing Desk

Torpid Slivers #40

/ Colin Raff / Misc
A Red Terrapisck (Loricatorsiti varstullus) can be tamed and trained by means of its taste for human perspiration

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Zeny May Dy Recidoro / Misc
Once I tell someone that I am from the Philippines, they ask me— so how’s New York working out for you?

Keepin It Chad #5

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
Chad decides to upgrade his wardrobe

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
This is not the place I craft my internationally-read tweets.

A Playlist for Sex with Strangers

/ Amanda Earl / Music
I find a lot of men don’t seem to like hearing Jeff Buckley.

Vlad Interviews: Kim Vodicka

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
my depression and I baked a blueberry pie last night, and it was delicious.

Interview: Mariel Fechik

/ Melissa Eleftherion / Interviews
I can’t really pinpoint what my earliest memory of it is. What I do remember is my 7th grade poetry unit.

Let Me Clarify #1: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
I keep a Swedish laundry basket in my bedroom, hand-woven of a single, acid-proof, stainless steel wire, shiny as hell.

Game Boy Satire: On Political Pokémon Memes

/ Giorgio Chiappa / Video Games
A week ago or so, I got bored while watching Douglas Sirk’s 1956 melodrama There’s Always Tomorrow and started trying to carve bits and pieces of what I was seeing into something meme-like.

Torpid Slivers #39

/ Colin Raff / Misc
To remind ourselves that Abtestudonia constitutes its very own vertebrate class among tetrapods, we need only recall that no fish can live out its life wriggling on dry land.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Puppy Love

/ Rani Shukra / Sex
Take this test to see when you’ll find the love of your life!

Gay Communism

/ Andrija Filipovic / Reviews
The appearance of Mario Mieli's book Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of Homosexual Critique is a breath of fresh air in the field of queer studies

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Violet Leaf for Cysts

/ Leah Sophia Dworkin / Sex
Yeah I’ve been intimate with a religious / person and it was fine and they sang

Poem: Amy Saul-Zerby

/ Amy Saul-Zerby / Poetry
are you sleeping / enough / are you eating / maybe we should / look into / a SAD lamp