Valerie Duff-Strautmann 6/20/23 Valerie Duff-Strautmann 6/20/23

We Have Other Plans: Review

In their two most recent collections, Graham and Mayer showcase their talent in poems that feel alive, fragile, endangered, profuse.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 6/20/23 Thomas Sayers Ellis 6/20/23

Folkcal Fraim 10

I mistook Sontag for Susan Sontag.

Featured Fiction Series 6/20/23 Featured Fiction Series 6/20/23

We’re honored to showcase our first featured fiction, with the story Frogtown. Introduction by John Fulton.

Featured Poet Series 6/20/23 Featured Poet Series 6/20/23

This issue highlights the poems of award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes, introduced by Askold Melnyczuk.

Dan Hunter 6/20/23 Dan Hunter 6/20/23

Will AI explain to humans that the joke is on us?

Jacki Lyden 6/20/23 Jacki Lyden 6/20/23

I hated to leave public radio. It was a beautiful place. But leave me, it did.

Vasyl Makhno 6/20/23 Vasyl Makhno 6/20/23

After Brodsky’s death, his beloved Venetian lions stand as silent witnesses and guardians of his poetry.

Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23 Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23

The Given Note’s mournful spirit would certainly have been in the air when the poem was read at Heaney’s funeral.

Jessica Small 6/20/23 Jessica Small 6/20/23

I have been thinking a lot about masks and condoms and consent, living through both a pandemic and a teenage daughter.

Volodymyr Yermolenko 6/20/23 Volodymyr Yermolenko 6/20/23

Death for us is no longer an abstract word. It is not something beyond your doors.