Poetry from Lou Sutherland
Photo: Kseniya Lapteva Eyes on Me . . Lou Sutherland (she/they) is a poet and prose writer from the South who is fascinated by the bridge between the psychological and the fantastical. Their writing tends to focus on elements of nature, mythology, and aging across the lifespan. You can read more of their work in […]
Nonfiction from Abigail Myers
Photo: Simon Berger Transfiguration Motherhood did not imbue me with radiant strength or peace. Mothering meant that my days and skillset drastically changed but I was shocked to realize that my many human frailties and vulnerabilities remained, despite the fact that I’d attained Madonna status. —Sara Petersen Then from the cloud came a voice that […]
Poetry from Hari B Parisi
Photo: Peter Mason As a girl 1 Grew up near a river. Not a Mississippi or Columbia. It had no paddlewheels. Looming dams. No sweeping wonder. Swam it where it ran slow. Deep waters that lifted a burning day. My mother didn’t bare her sex. Never learned to swim. . 2 Played solitaire in an […]
Poetry from Donna Vorreyer
Photo: John Silliman Possible Exit Strategy #1 I would kiss the sun goodbye to embrace the monster that I am —the moon is the point, isn’t it, the baying chase it inspires? I swallow then bite my spoon to mute that roundness, pull my lips over my teeth, use proper sounds, each tone bent to […]
Fiction from Brett Biebel
Photo: Oleksandr Akulenko Song of Myself, Six Months Postgrad and Still in Moline I heard about a gunfight, and I went. It was one of those old-fashioned ones. Ten paces. Turn, draw, etc. They held it in a basement, and the second you walked in you could feel the radon. There was a lot of […]
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