The Problem with Brigadoon

Fiction Marianne Jay

I was supposed to be funny crazy, not crazy crazy. There’s a difference. Funny crazy is wearing tinfoil hats and washing your hands until they bleed and...

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Gasoline Chainsaw Jesus

Poetry Joe Hall

Forest blinking in stuttering out, soiling itself under

The moon’s sterile spotlight, forgetting its name

Snatching as much Sudafed as we could......

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Birthday Trip to Père La Chaise

Nonfiction David Joiner

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...

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“Fire Play” and “These City Lights”

Featured Art Abram Landes

Award-winning photographer Abram Landes is excited to open an archive of never-before-shown images to Phoebe......

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Clean Song

Poetry Joe Hall

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......

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A quick post-AWP report

Phew! AWP has come and gone, and we're happy and tired. Thank you to everyone who came to our offsite event and stopped by our booth in the book fair!...

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Cracked

Nonfiction Amy Dupcak

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...

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The Worst That Could Happen

Poetry Maureen Thorson

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...

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Phoebe’s AWP reading event!

In conjunction with Big Lucks, Folio, and Gigantic Sequins

7 PM on Wednesday, February 2nd

Grand Central, 2447 18th St NW

Washington DC...

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“Many Muses”

Featured Art Linda Plaisted

A pioneer in contemporary photographic illustration and photomontage, each piece of artwork she creates is layered by hand with images she has captured...

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