Interview
Poetry as Protest: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao
interviewed by Kirby Chen Mages
Sally Wen Mao is the author of two poetry collections, Mad Honey Symposium and Oculus. The latter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and has received countless accolades, including being named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019.
Mao was the winner of a 2021 NEA grant, a 2017 Pushcart Prize, and a 2016 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman, New York Public Library, and Jerome Foundation, amongst others. Most recently, she was published in the American Poetry Review, and she was the 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas […]
This wood cut print series was created in response to a writing workshop at a youth shelter in Houston, Texas, conceived of and organized by JP Gritton […]
Writing for Young People
Aptronym
by Dana Blatte
There’s a girl on the rooftop.
I’ve never been up here with someone else before. To be honest, I didn’t think anyone else knew how to clamber to the top of James Madison Memorial High School other than the jocks who drunkenly dare each other to do it at post-game parties. But this girl isn’t a jock. It’s a rude first assumption, I know, but she looks too artsy with her black denim jeans and short-cropped, red-dyed hair. Too clever—unlike me—to conform to a team with regulation uniforms and rule books thicker than my thumbs […]
Fiction
Black & Blue
by J. T. Townley
Our new target was local. Considering he was responsible for dispatching close to a dozen of us, motivation was not in short supply […]
Poetry
In Memoriam Sam Stafford*
by Abhijit Sarmah
‘…those you will efface I have loved.’ —Agha Shahid Ali
The minute the bullet pierced his face
the sky so moon-flooded collapsed into a rhapsody […]
Lunch Special
Translation, an Echo of Love: An Interview with Robin Davidson
interviewed by Kelly Riggle Hower
A poet, translator, and professor, Robin Davidson is the author of Luminous Other, and two chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World […]
Flash Prose
Consent Training
by Minna Dubin
Ollie is pulling his eighteen-month-old sister’s hands. “Come on, Mae. I wanna show you. Come with me, Mae. Come with me.” She is pulling away from him. He is too strong. Keeps pulling. Mae begins to wail […]
Gabo Prize Winner
Chronicles of a Village (excerpts from the novel)
by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện, translated by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
my birthsoil, hearing the dawn crows of the roosters, rouses from sleep
1.
it was a morning i will never forget, the morning i opened the door to the sound of them shouting,
let us march forward […]
