The White Men Who Haunt Me: On Gender, Race, & Being Watched

/ Corinne Schneider / Letters & Essays
White men – mostly locals, but some tourists – rev their trucks and spill out their windows, leering at us, mostly at me, the white, extremely femme, blonde girl. The nice lake-goers are annoyed with this display but say nothing.

Erasing the ‘Aeneid’

On Autobiography: Truth and Poetry

Review: Registration Caspar

Choosing Sides

/ Salimah Perkins / Letters & Essays
For me, there’s a kinship that is inextricably linked with race that produces a resilient loyalty. It’s not blind or without complication, but it is overarching.

Women and Non-Binary Fiction Takeover

Jeremiad against this Executive Order

/ Ed Simon / Letters & Essays, Misc
When we have failed at our charge and in the words of John Winthrop we’ve been “made a story and by word through the world?” Then we recommit ourselves.

The Rival Poet’s Lover

ACA First-Person: Rahne Alexander

/ Rahne Alexander / Letters & Essays
The ACA, in combination with policy changes by my insurer, has rejuvenated me; it has provided me a great deal of hope for the future. I am so grateful for this hopeful spark; it’s been this thing more than any other that has kept me from falling into complete despair these last weeks.

Holes in the Canon: The Hartford Wits and Literary History

/ Eric D. Lehman / Letters & Essays
The architects of the American literary canon have always struggled between aesthetics and the demands of historicity. The Hartford Wits are a sad example of how this tension has become lopsided in favor of aesthetic currency,

Jars of Preserves

An Affirming Flame

Tara Campbell Week: Tree-lection 2016

/ Tara Campbell / Letters & Essays
Tara Campbell’s debut novel, TreeVolution, was released Nov. 1 from Lillicat Publishers. All this week on Queen Mob’s […]

The Ferrante Farrago

/ Rachel Stirling / Letters & Essays
I hope that all reputable journals and forms of press will decide to allow Ferrante her peace. It would be idiocy to chase her for comment.