Q&A with Issue 2 contributor Dennis Barone

Q&A with Issue 2 contributor Dennis Barone

We’re taking a week off from publishing new work, and instead offer up this short Q&A with Dennis Barone, who wrote the story, “Pass Go and Collect,” featured in Issue 2. Barone is a prolific writer, having published 11 books of prose, 3 books of poetry, and a collection of criticism. In addition, he has edited […]

Found poems from J.I. Kleinberg

Found poems from J.I. Kleinberg

Editor’s Note: We are delighted to publish some “found poems” by J.I. Kleinberg. The poems are discovered text fragments by the artist in various media outlets (magazines, newspapers, etc) and reorganized with a new purpose. When asked about her process, J.I. Kleinberg says, ” You may have had the occasional experience of looking at a page in […]

Fiction from Mindy Hung

Fiction from Mindy Hung

Three Drinking Stories Bodies of Water I had a job as a pool boy to a woman who claimed that water made her thirsty. She could only be satisfied with tea and freshly squeezed juices. All summer long, I picked grapefruit and lemons for her and her garbage stank of pulped fruit. I didn’t mind […]

Poetry from Marius Surleac

Poetry from Marius Surleac

deep down into all this nonsense      equilibrium a stare step on the cotton                               rocks covered with fog my tracks become liquid         I           become gaseous &                     condense                     on the light bulb flickering joy that has my name written                           in the corners and the mopboard distorts                         the beat of butterfly’s wings a flow of electrons      […]