Featured Fiction: Tommy Dean
At the church doors we dropped his arms, and the preacher lumbered through the sanctuary to the pulpit where he collapsed onto his back, his chest heaving, eyes searching.
Featured Poets: Jennifer Jean in Correspondence with Dr. Hanaa Ahmed
Featured poetry co-created in conversation between Dr. Hanaa Ahmed and Jennifer Jean.
Hansel & Gretel: Between Effort & Grace
Let’s run Hansel and Gretel through this Sisyphean prism. The story begins in a house where all grace has disappeared.
A Manifesto for the Smiley Face Shoggoth
Most of us are comfortable with the current lifeforms on the planet. Are we delusional zombies?
Silly Games to Save the World: Excerpts
Dot, Spot, To and Fro, Round, and Up, and Out You Go!
The Many Stories of Tarshia Green
I asked Tarshia Green how I should begin a story about her. She said, “Start with how my momma told me: ‘Don’t ever be a scab.’”
“People Do Not Give Each Other Shelter”: On Halldor Laxness’s Independent People
Independent People can be read as a meditation on what it means to have dependents and what it is one owes them.
Featured Fiction: Dustin M. Hoffman
We’re honored to showcase Hoffman’s short story Rosie the Riveter's Résumé, with Introduction by John Fulton.
Lines in Kherson, August 2023
There’s no hard line between war and peace in Ukraine but that doesn’t mean the human soul stops yearning for one.
Tributes to Amy Lowell
Our tribute to Amy Lowell began with a visit to her grave on her 150th birthday.
Die with a Hammer in my Hand
How can you test for creativity? It’s a contradiction in terms.
Encounter: A Surrealist Game of Empirical Perception
My encounter with this visual metaphor, where notes became atoms, led to the creation of Molecular Systematic Music.
Stravinsky at the End
Stravinsky’s last works have a severe beauty that remains always haunting.
What Would Kant Think of AI?
This notion of obeying commands starkly opposes our actual lived experiences.
