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STORY OF THE WEEK
Fathers
by Various Authors
Here we present five of our favorite works that map the tender and complex territory between father and child.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Solstice Litany
By Jim Harrison
What did the cattle do in this storm? They stood with their butts toward the wind, erect Buddhists waiting for nothing in particular.
FINAL MONTH TO ENTER
Poetry is “the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most,” wrote William Congreve. We agree and are seeking poets and poems to honor with prizes and publication.
Please see the Guidelines.
OPEN TO ALL WRITERS
We’re looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, and excerpts from long fiction and nonfiction.
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Homeland
By Mehul Bhagat
She cuts both ways—how she can mean both love & freedom with the same hand. I know also what it means to be born in one life and meant for another.
POETRY
Elegy for Sammy
By Ralph Bousquet
I prefer to remember something simple like finding you sitting cross-legged on my unfertilized crabgrass lawn at one o’clock in the morning.
POETRY
Teenage Riot and Other Poems
By Matthew Dickman
The only way to run through the neighborhood was to run through it together, flipping off cops and skinheads.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Two Appeals
By Alexandria Hall
My love swims you, your shoulders like hard sails under the green curls. Doesn’t sink. Doesn’t stink at all. Small powder around the moon.
POETRY
Sweet Girl and Other Poems
By Cate Lycurgus
tell me sweet girl, how to greet you—since my mamma doesn’t believe in you or in my ability to bear another being.
POETRY
Site Visits
By Rachel Mannheimer
She’s pursued by a knight—the man who loved her unrequitedly. He’ll slay her, then remove the heart and circumjacent parts and feed them to the dogs.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Cavitation
By Maggie Millner
Come hear me talk! Advance in age beside me and this pine! Is yours, like mine, the edgeless kind of soft? The grafted grin, the vinegary light?
POETRY
An Elegy for Mr. Vaishno Das Bagai, an American
By Faisal Mohyuddin
One day her husband’s blood would mount the most vicious testimony against him.
POETRY
Aubade with Hold Music
By Elizabeth Morton
We stood about, like white teeth, watching the morning split hairs in the shattered glass. Every other boy was listening to hold music.
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday
By David Corbett
Men can always produce attractive arguments to justify disgraceful actions.
FICTION
Visible Empire
By Hannah Pittard
He was in love with his wife, but he was also in love with his mistress, a woman nearly two decades his junior, which he didn’t think was fair.
FICTION
The Emperor of Shoes
By Spencer Wise
I got on the back of Ivy’s motorbike at the shoe factory like a lunatic who wants to get kidnapped, as my father would say.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Out of Body
By Lynn Ahrens
Many of my friends are open to the possibilities of paranormal phenomena. I wonder if they too are hedging their bets.
NONFICTION
Notes Nearing Ninety
By Donald Hall
In your eighties it gets hard to walk. Nearing ninety it’s exhausting to pull your nightshirt on.
NONFICTION
Kickflip
By Neal Thompson
I wanted to take a few weeks to immerse myself in the sport and culture that had come to dominate our family.
FEATURES
NONFICTION
FEATURES
Ten Landscapes
By Russell Chatham
The most notable of contemporary Western landscape painters, Chatham has focused on rural Northern California and the wilds of Montana. Here we present a gallery of his works.
Russell Chatham the Painter, Recently Hospitalized, Emerges from Seven-Figure Debt and Alcoholism, Ready to Paint
By Rick Bass
Always I study Russell closely, with fascination.
NONFICTION
Advice for a Young Painter
By Russell Chatham
First and foremost, determine if wanting to be a painter is just a passing romantic or otherwise fanciful notion or whether in fact it is a genuinely primal calling.
iPOEMS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
iPOEMS
Erratica
By Willa Carroll
I will keep sending you a dozen dead horses until you accept my steepest pathologies.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-05
By Various Artists
Great new toons by Pat Byrnes, Mary Lawton, Drew Panckeri, Mick Stevens, and P. C. Vey.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-04
By Various Artists
New art and humor from Pat Byrnes, Bob Eckstein, Kaamran Hafeez, Mick Stevens, and Julia Suits.
