The word “benign” has several meanings. It can mean kindly or harmless. Or gentle – which is nice. I thought it also meant “sitting around doing nothing,” but this incorrect.
If you are...
I was several blocks away, kicking a soccer ball against a cinder block wall. In the hospital that evening I stood alone in the fluorescent hall. I didn't believe a bit of it. Was Gawk in the room...
Do not make bones at me // I are soonly calcified // I are knowing
of death and of burial // making your spells // into mush words
remember how to incant this // I are not black in my father's...
This is red rock sensibility: Laura picks feathers
out of her hair and whispers, He loves me. He loves me
not. Too much time is spent twisting spanners – a clock
can be wound and rewound, but...
Featuring writing by Kati Fargo, John Blair, Kurtis Davidson, Phong Nguyen, M.D. Baumgartner, Angus Bennett, Eliza Rotterman, Karen Anderson, Martin Corless-Smith, J. Michael Martinez, James...
Featuring work by Connie Deanovich, Michael Palmer, Peter Gizzi, Mark Wallace, Buck Downs, Jen Coleman, Betsy Andrews, Douglas Messerlie & Joe Ross, C.E. Putnam, Chriss Stroffolino, Jeff Derksen,...
The thought passed through my mind that I was sitting with ‘Eve,’ a petite, attractive, open woman who had endured the obvious conflicts of a life with not just one personality, or even three as...
Featuring work from Bernadette Mayer, Greg Evason, David Meeker, Jill Robin Sisson, Amanda Lenk, Jen Coleman, Jessica Grim, Christopher Putnam, Russell Edson, Lisa Isaacson, Timothy Shea, Janet C....
