2023 – 10th Anniversary Double Issue

Three poems: that i eat birds/ Soft Bodies /Room for Rent

that i eat birds/ and even dreamed last night/ I had coughed the feathers up/…

From The Proscenium: Preface

“After taking the typewriter to her bed, Valence takes apart the typewriter.”

My Big Gay Essay

1. When I was sixteen, my best friend and I found a bolt of bright,…

Topping from the bottom: A CONVERSATION WITH KEGELS FOR HEGEL AND PATRICIA MONTOYA

In bone-crushing times, don’t mourn, organize. And, reach for a torch song. Or two. For…

Drawing Maps with Sandra Cisneros

We began our conversation with Sandra Cisneros drawing our own personal maps of the United…

This Moment of Mine/Este Momento Mío by Marigloria Palma

Translated by Carina del Valle Schorske   I drink down my aspirins and watch the…

Tlaquaches

  i. I don’t recall the first time I saw a tlaquache, an opossum, though…

How to Search for Your Child

  Colinas de Santa Fe, Veracruz, México   Drive a six-foot metal rod into the…

The Girl with Two Brothers

for Sarah When I was twelve or thirteen, we lived in the house on Old…

Four Poems by Cecilia Vicuña Translated From The Spanish

  La Gitana Dormida (Un león vigila su cuaderno de sueños) La Gitana ha escrito…