Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger Peyton Wahl Grief is often devouring, alienating, and impenetrable. However, not so much in spite of...

The Committee for Advocacy for Incarcerated People: An Interview with Amanda Hadlock, Brett Hanley, and Anthony Borruso Savannah Trent In...

Merciful Days by Jesse Graves Ian Hall In his most recent collection, Merciful Days, Jesse Graves labors to make some sense of memory,...

Blues From the age of seven, everything I felt in connection with a rectangle of framed sunlight was dominated by a single passion. If my...

Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson Landis Grenville This is a book of loss. The gun and the ghost dance in Wasson’s poetry, both reminders...

An Interview with Darrin Maier Haley Laningham See more of Darrin Maier’s artwork in Vol. 40.1 here. Darrin Maier (b. 1985) is a mixed...

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Elizabeth Strout’s Oh William! is the third book of hers featuring the tender,...

kate spade Girlhood mornings nested in her old sheets and shams, a palette of gentle ginghams—lilac, mint, baby girl pink. A single...

An Interview with Oscar Hokeah Tacey M. Atsitty Oscar Hokeah is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from his...

"About the Work" with Jane Zwart In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing...

"About the Work" with Wilhelm Sitz In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

An Interview with Elizabeth Haidle Haley Laningham What Is It?, 2021 See more of Elizabeth Haidle’s artwork in Vol. 40.1 . Elizabeth...

An Interview with Aaron Angello Patrick Parks Photo Credit: @michaelmasonstudios Aaron Angello is a poet, playwright, and essayist from...

"About the Work" with Stevie Edwards In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

"About the Work" with Siavash Saadlou In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

Finna by Nino Cipri Sierra Biggs Finding an elderly grandmother who’s lost in a furniture store should be easy, right? Well, maybe not if...

When God Opens a Door He Closes a Loophole One spring morning, a sinkhole opened up at the far end of the elementary school. It swallowed...

Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano Phoebe Myers Grafting a plant requires the fusing of a root and a shoot; the two parts meld together to...

To Accept the Void 1 a devastation gives way 2 the void invites me over for tea and prickly pear it explains oblivion in terms of a...

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...