Selected Poems | Carrie Nassif

"the elements have only just uncovered / this partial jawbone / displayed now in your hands / a piece of whiteworn chalk / seeking slate..."

|| | Andrew Mitin

"The glass stem fluctuates in size, now trim, now robust, and I wonder how the burgundy does not leap from the bowl..."

Six Words | Tracy Daugherty

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, a collection of essays on literature and writing, as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph Heller, and Joan Didion.

Selected Poems | Natasha Mijares

"everyone wants / to tell her how to speak / to cross the street with a sense of fear / to cross the street with a pleasure in fear / everyone wants to climb onto dust..."

The Depression, The Cold War, and The Chemist | M. F. McAuliffe

"He knows what the radiation’s done. He didn’t know for years; then he let himself suspect. And after that the job he had was still the best job he could get..."

Grammar | Sarah McCann

"So they’ve chipped obsidian from the Museum / of Natural History into grievous needles. They hide / them in their hair, or in the thick worming scars / on their arms..."