Vlad Interviews: Katharine Coldiron

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Man is the harbinger of the apocalypse. Woman is the crown of nature.

Response

/ Juliana Spahr / Misc
I have never really understood prosody. I might as well start there.

Queen Mob’s Presents: Nicholas Rombes

/ Queen Mob / Misc
You drove me to the old humiliation on what was / Taleghani Avenue.

Let Me Clarify #11: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
One of the worst examples of my bad behavior occurred on Christmas Day.

Black Friday and The New Industrial Revolution: What Do We Do?

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
I feel guilty about relying on Amazon and Google, and at the same time I feel it’s hypocritical of me to opt out. And it’s also overwhelming.

Let Me Clarify #10: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
I have a loud voice, and I have opinions. Observe me at social events, when small talk devolves into descriptions of the weather.

Hey there, Chappie!

/ Judson Hamilton / Misc, Reviews
All the Wrong Men by Aviya Kushner is an inventive chapbook. To call this chap […]

Torpid Slivers #41

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Why Gibber-In-Visible Morsels featuring Moth-Hyena™ Remains the Most Collectible Discontinued Monster-Themed Breakfast Cereal

Let Me Clarify #9: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Almost every night, a witch appeared at the side of my bed, wrapped her bony arms around me and dug her sharp nails into my back.

Happy Birthday, Berfrois!

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
As Berfrois reaches its ten-year birthday, I send my wish that it may always keep its energy of a ten-year-old: still in development, still full of anarchic questioning...

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Leon Craig / Misc
My kitchen is not my writing desk, because I actually want to spend time there.

Vlad Interviews: Thomas Walton

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
My bodily ancestors are mostly farmers and laborers. My mother spent her first years in a pig barn in southern Indiana.

Poems for Philosophers

/ Justin E. H. Smith / Misc
I’d rather end up at the morgue / Than in kingdom come with Swedenborg

Crying into My Scrambled Eggs

/ Denise K. James / Misc
I never learned to buy groceries or to cook, maybe because my mom didn’t really get into those tasks.

Let Me Clarify #8: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Accompanied by my son, I was back at Lucerne’s Museum of Art a few weeks later, channeling my father’s vocal volume at the ticket counter.

Interview: Arun Sagar

/ Medha Singh / Misc
Anamnesia refers to a little-known disorder characterised by an excess of memory. A disease of not forgetting.

Birthday soul-searching

/ Yahia Lababidi / Misc
On the eve of turning 46 years old (which, in turn, is four years short of 50!) I'm asking myself these questions with renewed urgency.

Let Me Clarify #7: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Preserving ethnic heritage was more important to my parents than adapting to a country that had offered them asylum and citizenship.

Hey there, Chappie!

/ Judson Hamilton / Misc
It averages out the colour of the world’s history, and that average is dark.

C.S. Lewis & the Spiritual Tipping Point

/ Yahia Lababidi / Misc
How does a diehard atheist become, in effect, one of the most successful evangelists of the twentieth century?

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Teresa K. Miller / Misc
The desk belonged to my grandfather. When I was a child, the large pane of glass protecting its fake leather top impressed me.

Hey there, Chappie!

/ Judson Hamilton / Misc
Make no assumptions, please, that I am a horse trapped in the body of a muscleman

Let Me Clarify #6: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
My acquaintance is overly concerned with age and appearance—especially mine.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Judson Hamilton / Misc
After the accident he couldn't remember anything. His wife, as luck would have it, was a top-flight neurologist.