From Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
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Poetics of Limbo
Michelle Phương Hồ | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "To be recognized in this country, I became a defendant. I was handed an orange bucket..."
"Opium and Ambergris" by Colin Dekeersgieter
"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."
"TRANZ" by Spencer Williams
"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."
A Secret Third Thing: Rachelle Toarmino and Lucy Wainger
"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."
Cynthia Cruz
"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."
Stay in the Silence: A Conversation with Lara Mimosa Montes
"I first read Lara Mimosa Montes' THRESHOLES while the forest around me burned. Obscured by fire and smoke, I imagined the landscape..."
"Intimacies, Received" by Taneum Bambrick
"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."
Field Notes
Fields Delmar | NONFICTION | "As a family physician and obstetrician, I tend to people and their families. My clinic day usually includes.."
My Sister's Foot is Haunted
Stephanie Macias | GRASP | "SHE WEARS A red sock to keep it quiet..."
A Guidebook, This Pen
Sasha Hom | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "No . . . We don’t know . . . These meetings? . . . Yes, I know . . . Every Wednesday . . ."
The Woman Who Fell Out the Window
Marianne Chan | ESSAY | "IMMIGRATION STORIES ARE origin stories and, like many origin stories, ours begins with a fall..."
Three Poems by Despy Boutris
Despy Boutris | POETRY | "I’m not asking for much. Only everything: to sprawl in every open field, to never age, to always be the most..."
Afterimages
Ariel Chu | APERTURE | "The day we meet, we bond over our broken hearts. Walking around the man-made marsh..."
Where You Want To Be
Fullamusu Bangura | NONFICTION | "ON MY LAST trip home to DC, I sorted through what was left of my childhood belongings..."
I am Cleopatra
Julie Moon | DIARY | "MY NAME IS Cleopatra. If someone orders me killed, they might do it for the soil..."
"Intimacies in Borrowed Light" by Darius Stewart
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "These poems pulse with ardor, expectation, and the possibility of touch’s physical and affective potential."
"A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line" by Vi Khi Nao
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "organizes itself in four sections, Shorts, Shirts, Skorts, and Skirts, where the body becomes cloth or flame..."
"Fieldglass" by Catherine Pond
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I read Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass three months after my last heartbreak."
"Fish Carcass" by Vi Khi Nao
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Vi Khi Nao’s sixteenth book Fish Carcass (2022) is a poetic Petri dish of lived experience."
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