Nataliia Bidenko 10/10/23 Nataliia Bidenko 10/10/23

Notes in the Kyiv Scrapbook

War stories are becoming more common every day. And there will be many more.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/10/23 Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/10/23

Folkcal Fraim 11

With a camera, I could feel the interior lives of objects not given the opportunity to live as we live.

Leila Farsakh 10/10/23 Leila Farsakh 10/10/23

Trying to Reach Palestine

I found my father’s house waiting for us, in its defiant, embracing grandeur.

Helen Fremont 10/10/23 Helen Fremont 10/10/23

Review: “Is It So?”

This book is not only a work of literature, but also a companion to the world of possibilities within each of us.

Featured Fiction Series 10/10/23 Featured Fiction Series 10/10/23

Featured Fiction: Jennifer Haigh

We’re honored to showcase Jennifer Haigh’s short story Citizen, with Introduction by John Fulton.

Featured Poet Series 10/10/23 Featured Poet Series 10/10/23

Featured Poet: Nidia Hernández

We’re proud to bring you the poems of writer and editor Nidia Hernández, introduced by Askold Melnyczuk.

Dan Hunter 10/10/23 Dan Hunter 10/10/23

I Am, In Fact, A Person

We must ask anew: what does it mean to be human?

Tony Schwalm 10/10/23 Tony Schwalm 10/10/23

Baby Blue On Baby Blue

I wonder why I didn’t feel bad. I wonder why I didn’t feel anything.

Tom Sleigh 10/10/23 Tom Sleigh 10/10/23

Unexpected Magnitudes: On David Rivard’s “Some of You Will Know”

Rivard has a genius for knowing when emotion is in danger of turning into emoting.

Laima Vince 10/10/23 Laima Vince 10/10/23

Transforming Trauma Through Writing

Our workshop had given them permission to feel their emotions again.

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

Featured Fiction: Jonny Baltazar Lipshin

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

Featured Poet: Sarah Chayes

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

The Day the World Flipped

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

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

Tell me Something Good

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

Venetian Lion: on Joseph Brodsky

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 Poet & the Fiddler: A Musing on Seamus Heaney

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

Masks and Condoms

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

Report from Ukraine, 2023

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