Birthday Trip to Père La Chaise
It’s February and we’re standing beneath a gray, birdless sky. Arm in arm eating mangosteens purchased from a wrinkled old man in a woolen hat and...
“Fire Play” and “These City Lights”
Award-winning photographer Abram Landes is excited to open an archive of never-before-shown images to Phoebe......
Clean Song
If this is weeping, it isn’t; it’s
The shuttered mouth of a flooded subway
It’s bees iced in their hives, a crocus’ spears......
Cracked
Overnight, something happens between the two hemispheres of my brain: a tiff, a quarrel, an all-out brawl. The universe unravels in my hands; its spiral...
The Worst That Could Happen
You’re lost. The gunmen don’t speak English. You forgot you had a test and you’re naked and it’s a shop test and you crush something vital in the...
Phoebe’s AWP reading event!
7 PM on Wednesday, February 2nd
Grand Central, 2447 18th St NW
Washington DC...
“Many Muses”
A pioneer in contemporary photographic illustration and photomontage, each piece of artwork she creates is layered by hand with images she has captured...
Not a Family
Here, she could carefully read the directions and administer the test. She could sit on the toilet watching the white stick’s cloudy window without the...
The Tourist Trail by John Yunker
Perhaps the competing narrative of Robert Porter, an FBI agent bound for a mission in Argentina, should have tipped me off, but if you'd told me after...