By Queen Mob

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Salon C, Level 2

/ Suzanne Wise / Sex
I sat back down. The next reader had an avian air about him. Eagle-like brow, blond beard, puffy-chested, unsteady, gestural. He spoke of the prize he won.

Sticks, Stones and Other Things

/ Ed Simon / Misc
I can’t be the only one to think that the bad faith conservative arguments about free speech have become tired

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Liquid Metal

/ Tamim Sadikali / Sex
I drink her in, take my time; no rush. In this half-light her dress shimmers, like mercury running

Keepin It Chad #4

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
The descent of a single Chad shall send fleeing from the land all beasts of hoof, feather and claw.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Working on Ourselves

/ Zach Linge / Sex
Close your eyes and imagine sexless sex / The orgasmic desexed eyes and sex still / Sexless the eyes closed and sext lists

Vlad Interviews: Jane Rosenberg LaForge

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
If I could be successful, I’d like it to mean I could stop worrying. 

Poem: Suzanne Wise

/ Suzanne Wise / Poetry
The sun’s light glazed the way in— / electric, unctuous oozing of dust and glory. / The one-way tinted glass abetting the light—the light ...

Better Read Than Dead

/ Ed Simon / Misc
As I approach the mid-point of my second decade performing an imitation of being in academe, I’ve come to one deeply held conviction

Poem: Ellen Welcker

/ Ellen Welcker / Poetry
past tense means it happened and now it will never stop / and are you become superfund

Review: A Lesser Love

/ Reuven Pinnata / Reviews
Is there a difference between, say, looking at your drunk self in the mirror and being put under government surveillance?

Keepin It Chad #3

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
"It's just...I wanted *that* one."

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Song of the Oyster Girl

/ Rita Mookerjee / Sex
She’d lie in wait with her arms around a gigantic pearl / and then emerge in a veil making the birth / of Venus look like a schoolgirl waiting for the bus.

Poem: Leah Sophia Dworkin

Poem: J.A. Pak

/ J.A. Pak / Poetry
Today is the anniversary of my immigration. What I / like to call the Birth of Bleakness. The day I begin to

Poem: Rita Mookerjee

/ Rita Mookerjee / Poetry
An apple keeps its / bones clustered in dense flesh, so / it’s strange to think of / the red pulp in my teeth

Interview: Medha Singh

/ Ruby Nangia / Interviews
I might have said this before somewhere, but it's imperative that the telos is to resist influence.

Keepin It Chad #2

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
dealing with a mansplainer on the prowl

Call for Submissions

Keepin It Chad #1

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
Feminist adventures of the noblest white dude you know

Alfonso Cuarón and the Majesty of Place

/ Sonya Alexander / Reviews
Cuarón's films present place as both a setting and riff on the human condition

Torpid Slivers #38

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The fake Spindulephopods currently flooding (or rather poisoning) the market look quite similar to the real thing...

Poem: Alina Pleskova

/ Alina Pleskova / Poetry
Her profile reads In town for the weekend / trying to feel something—

Call For Interviews!

/ Queen Mob / Interviews
Queen Mob's Teahouse is open to submissions of interviews with poets, fiction writers...

Interview: Kristin Chang

/ Jennifer Zhou / Interviews
I’m always trying to unlearn capitalist/Western ideas of “progress” and “discovery” and try to think of everything I write

Torpid Slivers #37

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The following dance is for those who found the previous too difficult.