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An Interview with Elizabeth A. I. Powell [by Nin Andrews]
I met Elizabeth A. I. Powell years ago when we were both students in the MFA program at Vermont College. A young mother with three small children and another one in her future, she…
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Book Recommendation: Philip Brady’s The Elsewhere: Poems and Poetics
Philip Brady's The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics is a collection aimed at eternity. Brady's new and selected provides an unabashedly bardic synthesis of the smoking girders and brickwork that make a life in poetry. Ranging…
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The Four Noble Truths [by Mitch Sisskind]
Number One, in a nutshell: life is pain And (Number Two) life's pain is caused By desire; so if Old Smengie desires A coffee date date with Paige Spiranac (Google her) because It might possibly Lead…
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“The Last Orgasm” [by Nin Andrews]
Preface If anyone reads this book, they will think they know what kind of person I am. They will, I am certain, imagine me as someone else, someone I can never be—simply because I…
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Dispatch from a Distance – Animal Tracking [by Cara Benson]
Rare glimpse It’s easy to feel like a Magoo in the woods, walking my developing foot paths to repeatedly visited spots among the veritable highways and busy intersections of animal tracks crisscrossing all around…
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Squibs 457-463 [by Alan Ziegler]
457: 458: Louvre Pyramid aglow, flat on my belly angling the camera with my wallet, my cheek to the ground to peek through the viewfinder. A tug on my feet—must be security I’m always doing…