a hunger that
will split a hair—
then hunger till
the head is gone—
Laura Wendorff is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. She has been published in several journals, most recently Spillway and Schuylkill Valley …
Category: Featured
Featured: Watch Her Sleep
Endika Sangroniz
Endika Sangroniz is a 21-year-old singer/songwriter and poet from the Basque Country, Spain. Last year, he wrote his first full-length collection of poems entitled ‘Songs That Can’t Be Sung’, which is still to be published. …
Featured: The Invitation
Paul Hostovsky
Being white and having attended a few
racial justice meetings where the talk
is of cultivating authentic relationships
with people of color, I asked a black co-worker
if he’d like to come over for dinner. He answered
my …
Featured: Contemplation
Jay Carson
All food is 80 percent water,
a doctor once told me.
When you think about it,
it has to be.
I thought about it:
I didn’t think it had to be.
I’m a theological libertarian:
God could do …
Featured: Tree, a Triptych
Brooke Larson
Brooke Larson is a writer, collagist, and fungi enthusiast. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Louisiana. She calls home Arizona’s Sonoran …
Featured: Book of Gates
Barbara Daniels
Floodgate Road closed. You can
drive over to South Otter Branch.
But the road is closed to Otter Brook.
Garden State Scooters is located
there now. Rent or buy. Birds call
through the smoke-filled light.
Small trees, new …
Featured: Spontaneous Generation
Vicente Huidobro
Translated by Jonathan Simkins
Ask for your death
Here is the grave by the trail of nocturnal planes
The spontaneous generation of words on the open sea
The glitter of their modulating passage
In the cross’s metamorphosis lighting …
Featured: Vertigo
David Anthony Sam
You turn and turn,
animate flesh,
quickly forgetting
the knowing part of you.
We speak towards you
but you do not hear
as the gray clouds
that descend to gray fog
do not hear.
Outside, jonquils and …
Featured: The Wicked Witch to the West
Zan Bockes
“That witch needs her head examined!” roared my father after yet another confrontation, evidently hoping his shout would carry out the screened window to Mrs. Hokinson’s pointed ears. I could see her in her backyard, fuming as …
Featured: Free Surge
Ross Hargreaves
Right before lunch in the West Junior High band room when the overhead tells us about the Surge truck parked by the cafeteria ready and waiting to give us all free Surge. “Hurry up,” the overhead said. …