BEAST OF THE SEA (2)

February 2, 2013

And there was given to it a mouth with which to speak great things and blasphemies.  And there was given to it, too, authority, and hierarchy, and men and women worshipping. This was the dream of...

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MASKS

February 2, 2013

At the grocery store today— these meteors and angels, wise men and all the beautiful hallucinations of December, wearing the masks of the Ordinary, the Annoyed, the Tired. The Disturbed. The Sane....

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The Country

February 2, 2013

There is a horse with a face made of flies. There is wet shale, a porch, a storm. You are checking your body for ticks. The moonlight glazes your skin as you turn in the mirror, no red apertures...

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Trespassers

February 2, 2013

Tonight you are a mile of black weeds. You are a crow with a beak full of smoke on the move over the river. Tonight I shave my head and nail a baggy of hair above my door. I walk by the light of my...

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THAT MEN SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER

February 2, 2013

It is the bread that will not be baked. The bread that rises and continues to rise. It is the recital performed every night— Little girl in a snowstorm in an empty auditorium.  Not the soldier on...

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Phoebe Issue 42.1 Spring 2013

February 2, 2013

Samples from our new print issue, Phoebe 42.1, now available for purchase through our Subscription page!...

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An Interview with Katherine Boo: National Book Award Winner

November 29, 2012

This year’s recipient of the National Book Award in Nonfiction is Katherine Boo, for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. In...

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The “Phallus-Man” Reflects: A Review of Frederick Seidel’s Nice Weather

October 2, 2012

While I won’t reveal where I come down on the question of whether Frederick Seidel is “the best poet we have” in contemporary American poetry, I think anyone familiar with his career would...

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Phoebe Issue 41.2 Fall 2012

September 18, 2012

Our first ever full online issue in its entirety! Highlights include our 2011 contest winners and runners-up judged by Matthea Harvey (Poetry), David Means (Fiction), and Mary Roach (Nonfiction)....

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Crafting Truth: the “New” Journalism of Dick Reavis

May 15, 2012

Blog Traci Cox

“I read pamphlets and Marx in college,” he noted. “Not Esquire.” In both his writing and lifestyle, Reavis is a bit of a daredevil, willing to risk his life...

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