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Nonfiction by Klein Voorhees
Principle I: The Arbitrary Nature of the Sign "No one disputes the fact that linguistic signs are arbitrary. But it is often easier to...
Apr 11, 20249 min read
An Interview with Nathan Hill
An Interview with Nathan Hill Thomas Sokolowski Photography Credit: Erik Kellar Nathan Hill’s best-selling debut novel, The Nix, was...
Apr 2, 202412 min read
Craft Talk with Malcolm Tariq
The Spiritual Lives of Poems: A Craft Talk by Malcolm Tariq This craft talk was originally featured in SER's Writer's Regimen: Your...
Mar 21, 20244 min read
Poetry by Patrick Wilcox
On Word Choice The house across the street was something. Say alive, not something. Something is vapid and closer to silence than...
Mar 8, 20241 min read
Poetry by Dana Jaye Cadman
Nova Dad under the Chevy Nova with a cigarette in the driveway Gentle so the ashes don’t fall by the front yard by the crabapple tree...
Feb 23, 20241 min read
"About the Work" with Maria Poulatha
"About the Work" with Maria Poulatha In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight...
Feb 16, 20241 min read
Book Review: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
A Review of Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Ceren Sevin Gardens have long been the site and symbol of human...
Feb 9, 20244 min read
Fiction by Lydia Mathis
Let the Church Say On that first Sunday in March, we woke early. The alarm went off at six a.m. and we blinked the sleep out of our eyes....
Feb 2, 20248 min read
Craft Talk with Isle McElroy
The Announcement: Creating Suspense by Spoiling the Plot Creating suspense is one of the most difficult tasks of writing a novel,...
Jan 26, 20243 min read
Book Review: What Napoleon Could Not Do
The American Dream Revisited: A Review of DK Nnuro’s What Napoleon Could Not Do William Haydon The fiction that is the “American Dream”...
Jan 19, 20244 min read
"About the Work" with Chen Chen
"About the Work" with Chen Chen In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight into...
Jan 12, 20242 min read
An Interview with Ken Gun Min
An Interview with Ken Gun Min Haley Laningham See more of Ken Gun Min’s work in Vol. 41.2 here. Ken Gun Min’s paintings strike the...
Jan 4, 20244 min read
An Interview with Philana Oliphant
An Interview with Philana Oliphant Haley Laningham Adjust to Reality See more of Philana Oliphant’s work in Vol. 41.2 here. Philana...
Dec 14, 20237 min read
Nonfiction by Mansi Dahal
shhh mommy's writing a poem on my twenty-fifth birthday, i call aama and ask her, aama, what does it feel like to be a mother for...
Dec 8, 20236 min read
"About the Work" with Katie Berta
"About the Work" with Katie Berta In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight...
Dec 1, 20232 min read
Poetry by Deon Robinson
What I Was Owed I, for one, wanted his arm gone. Dimas wanted to test run some tacky mustard yellow paper cutter left unsupervised...
Nov 27, 20232 min read
"About the Work" with Jessica Poli
"About the Work" with Jessica Poli In our "About the Work" series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight...
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Nonfiction by Julia Cohen
Dark Levity: On Clear Shower Curtains & Living as an Unreliable Narrator “Such a soft sound being eaten from inside your own skull”—David...
Nov 10, 202319 min read
An Interview with A. Van Jordan
An Interview with A. Van Jordan Anthony Borruso Photography credit: Do Pham A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry,...
Nov 3, 202317 min read
Poetry by Caitlin Cowan
I Wish You Were Dead I hear it through an open window. He screams I wish you were dead. I listen to the mean music from the street, sour...
Oct 27, 20232 min read
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