Valerie Duff-Strautmann
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
Fo(lk)cal Fr-aim 10
I mistook Sontag for Susan Sontag.
Featured Fiction Series
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
Featured Poet: Sarah Chayes
This issue highlights the poems of award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes, introduced by Askold Melnyczuk.
Dan Hunter
The Day the World Flipped
Will AI explain to humans that the joke is on us?
Jacki Lyden
Tell me Something Good
I hated to leave public radio. It was a beautiful place. But leave me, it did.
Vasyl Makhno
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
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
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
Report from Ukraine, 2023
Death for us is no longer an abstract word. It is not something beyond your doors.