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

You looking at me crossways?!

Keepin It Chad #3

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

FICTION: Hard Landing

/ J. Dianne Dotson / Misc
The rocks pelted down around Kace, staccato little explosions in the speakers of her helmet. […]

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

Torpid Slivers #38

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

5 for Coping

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
The makers and performers of these five albums get me. I feel like the creators of this music understand what it means to be an awkward, out-of-place, vulnerable and caring...

Torpid Slivers #37

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

Torpid Slivers #36

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Must have tumbled out, poor chap. I’ll give him a lift back…

Vlad Interviews: C.C. Hannett

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Today, my interlocutor is C.C. Hannett. I could tell you about him, but it would be better if he told us about himself.

Eurovision Poetry Festival

Torpid Slivers #35

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Mock away, Xaphariaxa. Should any of your words sting, I need only recall that you are the mother of that brat Gangrezzelas.

Torpid Slivers #34

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The mating columnhoppers (Stictocephala capitellum) will not be happy until they can replicate in silhouette the hand of the entomologist T. Velchzinger

The Writer’s Life

/ Eli S. Evans / Misc
When I am writing poorly, nothing else in the world seems good enough, either.

Poets Online Talking About Coffee: Erin Hoover

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
October has been a hard month fighting the capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy that is the current U.S. government.

Torpid Slivers #33

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Bephimogostoloma-Finnifigletch (a.k.a. Bletchmog, Botchmug, Fetchpug or Gustolomomorynomothobatollus) is a mighty baronet of Hell

The Smallest Tear: On Crying, Reading and Releasing

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Misc
The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between Atlantis and Venice.

Vlad Interviews: Adrian Manning

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When I hear the name Adrian, I recall a Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev. Are you an astronaut too?

On Cocaine

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
There was a time when cocaine could be bought in a chemist

Torpid Slivers #32

/ Colin Raff / Misc
If you think C and D are exactly alike, accept that you will never find out where the treasure is hidden.

Torpid Slivers #31

/ Colin Raff / Misc
They say a sailor’s lot is rougher now than it’s ever been.

Torpid Slivers #30

/ Colin Raff / Misc
This costume, designed after Haugrellet’s “Bivaloum Racing Along the Glaubenberg Pass,” is of azure satin with golden bands, buttons, tassel and mask trimming.