Lust Thrust Thursdays: A Sombre Note

/ Gem Blackthorn / Sex
The one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, and that night I was happy.

Riding the Lift

/ Brittany Ackerman‏ / Misc
I worry about money, my financial situation. I wonder how possible it is that I will win a writing contest soon, ever. Get a book deal soon, ever.

Dear Poetry Editor

Poetry Review: Four Books by Sarah Mangold

/ Greg Bem / Reviews
Re: The Goddess Can be Recognized by her Step; Electrical Theories of Femininity; A Copyist, an Astronomer, and a Calendar Expert; and Giraffes of Devotion

Queen Mob’s Tea Party

The Giant

/ Tim Raymond / Fiction
A giant walks around in a forest. It’s nice and all, but for years he’s […]

Love’s Labour’s Stain

/ Dennis Milam Bensie / Letters & Essays
Who could forget the ninety-minute modern dress Julius Caesar? --which turned out to be ninety minutes of screaming.

“The silence … is our most unyielding Creon”: Five questions for Sara Uribe & John Pluecker about Antígona González

/ David Buuck & translated by John Pluecker / Interviews
To be disappeared is not simply to be killed, but to deny to survivors and loved ones both the evidence required for legal justice as well as embodied rituals of grief and mourning.

Poems: Benjamin DeVos

/ Benjamin DeVos / Poetry
I spend most of my time eating pepperoni pizza in the everglades, watching spiders burst from the inside of unwashed tomatoes.

Poem: Franz Werfel

Reinterpretation*

Three Bloody Words: an interview with Stephanie Bolster

/ rob mclennan / Interviews
In the graduate class I led this year, of the students who chose to do a presentation or a paper on another poet’s work, all but one chose “poetry” that was presented as prose, or at least partially as prose.

Burst!!

Small Comfort

/ Madeline Gobbo / Fiction
My true love appeared as I drew back my right foot to crush his office […]