Notes on Writing about Sexual Violence

“What would happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser asks in her oft-quoted poem “Käthe Kollwitz,” “if…

I Follow my Intuition

She unrolls like sharp and gold wire toward decorous flowers. I see the peach unmoving…

Death of a Family

I. When did we become mortal enemies? You campaigned early and hard to be our…

The Patient Records

1.It begins in the middle like this: the sun sets quietly in a Brooklyn sky.…

Untitled Excerpt

Innocent stood in the middle of the trailer; the children crowded together in the back.…

Ventriloquist Museum

In the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, she realizes she is ruined…

Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19

Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…

A Conversation with Poets

[The following is a selection of email responses from the poets in this issue to…

Sequence from Botanic América

sparrows void sneaker hollows thrown over a telephone line with nests. at dusk   we are…

circus tent domed in new age

over the Pecking duck a quick head jerkcan’t eavesdrop lack of tryhard  fascinates scarification a planeloadin from LA certain…