Category: Online Issue Pieces

Moongirls of the Medicine Birds

Gillian Cummings   You were about to float away so they taught you not to. Soft-crofted into quiet they come, finely fretted in frocks of spook light—winged ones they bring, goldfinch, marlin,...

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Completing the Arc

Nancy Hewitt   There’s a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen A warm front’s arriving, blasts of sun knifing their way through thunderous...

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When You Look Away

Jennifer Murvin   I always borrow the babies during the last week of September, when it is warm enough to have the children outside in strollers but cool enough for my navy coat, the one with...

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Joel Had a Wedding & We All Went

Todd Seabrook   Joel had a wedding and we all went. The groomsmen played bocce on the grass, all of us throwing the balls, red, yellow, blue, green, all the colors and all the balls, throwing...

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La Masacuata

Alexandra Lytton Regalado   Máma Carmen said Ada came to burden her life because she was born blue-eyed. Not that milky grey that most new mothers boast about. Later, you see those same babies...

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Sonnet

RJ Ingram   Eleven Marilyn Monroes schlep food From plastic trays into plastic buckets Every one of them is in high school They are going to get into college Good colleges in other states like...

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Sonnet

RJ Ingram   It’s noon & I am crying in the rotunda Someone has died or is about to And I can’t remember the color of my Lover’s eyes even though they are as Hazel as wood split by a...

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“Self”

Dorothea Lasky I can feel my own body Kissing my self as a ghost The smooth thighs Like a lover never has Like my mother promised me I’d be loved by everyone But it all came out A lie Instead I...

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Try It Yourself: A How-To Guide from Artist Jaime Bennati

To use the method for creating paper sculptures that Bennati developed and used in her series SitPass, follow her instructions below. More tutorials are available on her website.  Jaime...

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Featured Artist: Jaime Bennati

from Ávores no Brasil from SitPass- Goiânia This body of work called SitPass looks at the landscape, bus routes and designs found throughout the central city of Goiânia, Brazil. The work was...

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