Issue 41.1
It might not surprise you to see an editor professing excitement over the magazine's content. But, while I'll cop to my role as hype man, please trust that I'm...
Phoebe’s second annual Twitter contest!
1). Follow us on Twitter @PhoebeJournal.
2). Tweet us some superb prose or poetry--in 140 characters or less!
3). The three best tweets received by the end of April, as judged by us,...
Rhythm vs. Fact
There were factual inaccuracies in D’Agata’s essay, including the statement that Las Vegas had 34 strip clubs, when the source clearly said it had 31....
In A Strange Room
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut is a novel in three parts. Or rather, a book in three parts. The novel part is debatable. Why? Because each of the three...
The Velvet Queen in Sternum
Tandem visions of our chests in waves of bone. I find myself aware of the bones in my ribs, the bones in my sternum. When I lose and gain weight, I...
What is Left is What Matters
A review of Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward. What is at stake for this family comes starkly to the fore of this intimate and brutal narrative set in Bois...
Letters to my Daughters
...Every plum has a past.
When you puncture the skin, you don’t think
of where it’s been, but how it tastes....
Can-Picking
We heave creaking Hefty bags over our backs. Bags the size of baby elephants, singed water heaters, stopped engine blocks worth only scrap....