Month: April 2024

Poetry

When Do You Get to Be Angry? by Sophie Roy

Emma’s birthday partyAftermathOpen a windowBurn the green top in the sinkWatch it burn.  Axelle’s birthday partySmash his head through the living room’s windowThe girls will thank you for it tomorrow morning. Women bond over pain. Is it okay for me to say that? Am I allowed to be angry?  14th of july, nice day for a miscarriage. Bloody tiles;Bloody Mary. Wanna go to the pool? Cannonball styleHow far can … Continue reading When Do You Get to Be Angry? by Sophie Roy

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Poetry

This Is How I Bury My Dead TNs by Seb Callaway

two bodies on the train, shimmeringfat on the form makes me out to be soft and porousand penetrable but what if I want to existas something a polished slab of wet concreteuprootedan infinite ashtray isgrowing beneath floral wallpaper i can feel my sneakers rotting off my feeti wear these holographic TNspulsating veinswatching people watching me as i watch themon the 2 during a prime july … Continue reading This Is How I Bury My Dead TNs by Seb Callaway

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Poetry

Regretfully Yours by Dale Champlin

“and even you forgot those brilliant flashes seen from afar” —Ruth Stone I should have taken you up on that trip to Mexico—my only chance to swim in the gulf, to surfthe exotic and erotic; tequila, bizarro birds,burnished sunrise through slats in the shutters,instead of a turndown. My big mistake was to playthe fool—too cool for school. I should have held youin my strong arms, … Continue reading Regretfully Yours by Dale Champlin

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Book Review

Mother Is Not Mothering: Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died

For the past almost two years, it’s been all but impossible to go into any bookstore without seeing the now indelible image of Jennette McCurdy holding a pink urn with confetti sprouting out of it as she bears an expression somewhere between hopeful, happy and defiant. As the book, titled I’m Glad My Mom Died, makes clear, it took McCurdy a very long time to … Continue reading Mother Is Not Mothering: Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died

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Poetry

Kingdom Come by Charlie Robert

Rural Route Three.Billboards.Debris.This is God’s Green EarthWhere Hope applied And got denied.Where teenage brides Watch children rideHand-me-down bikes inHand-me-down clothes.Heads down riding fast pastBoarded up houses.Past lives and Past spouses.Windows. Staple-gunned in plastic.Doors. Ripped from hinges.RacoonIn the cupboard.SnakeIn the sink.Sparrows.Scraping the ceilings. Beating their wings in silence. *previously published in The Orchards Poetry Journal Continue reading Kingdom Come by Charlie Robert

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Essay

What People Really Mean When They Say You Shouldn’t Run A Lit Mag If It’s Not “Profitable”

*The following is likely to offend primarily because everything that doesn’t have a vegetative state-level of conviction offends. But I am not here to soothe easily ruffled feathers with dulcet tones and false assurances.* In the “modern age,” it’s widely accepted that the artist can no longer be just that. They have to be everything. Their own one-man self-promoter—a barker in this carnival of horrors … Continue reading What People Really Mean When They Say You Shouldn’t Run A Lit Mag If It’s Not “Profitable”

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Poetry

Enthusiastic Indifference by Frankie Laufer

The relentless march of ants, full of abundance.Black and Red but never Lime Green.Work is Worship.Wide awake they march to duty and the Queen.But don’t these six-legged bent antennae know that by law they are entitled to two fifteen-minute breaks?This is government work at its best, but not a time clock in sight.An owl wearing a dog collar watches this performance piece but mistakes it … Continue reading Enthusiastic Indifference by Frankie Laufer

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Book Review

Luminous Loops: A Review of Chloe Briggs’ and Lillian Davies’ Playgrounds by Malik Crumpler

Playgrounds, a new cross-genre art book by Chloe Briggs and Lillian Davies, is something seriously superb. In just thirty-three pages, Briggs and Davies have created an accessible experience during which the reader listens carefully to a casual yet exhilarating conversation between a professional visual artist and a professional writer. As they elaborate on their connection to the history of parks, feminism and creative crafts, the … Continue reading Luminous Loops: A Review of Chloe Briggs’ and Lillian Davies’ Playgrounds by Malik Crumpler

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