Is writing an act of defiance itself? Or do the dilemmas we face as writers push us into acts of…
Two Poems for Flavor Town USA by Avery Gregurich
I Keep Guzzling Bug Juice, Thirsty As I Am I can never leave the Casey’s convenience store without myBug Juice.…
Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato for #NoMorePresidents
SCARLET is a digital visual/poetic meditation on the fractured state of psyche induced by extended social isolation under COVID-19 lockdown.…
LITTLE EYES, a new novel by Samanta Schweblin, reviewed by Shannon Nakai
In its eyecatching green-and-white cover and deceptively simple title, Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes offers a playful, incisive critique on what…
“Repetition Is Magical”: Jesi Buell in Conversation with Candice Wuehle, author of FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed
Candice Wuehle’s most recent poetry collection FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed centers around the magical elements of our everyday lives. Through…
HOW HE LOVED THE BONES, a new chapbook by poet Caitlin Scarano, reviewed by Jonathan Kelly
Caitlin Scarano’s latest chapbook How He Loved the Bones takes us on a journey of recovery as we traverse the…
Side A Video Poem Collaboration by Penn Kemp & Gary Barwin: “The Female Line”
A note on the media: Gary Barwin created the video poem in collaboration with Canadian poet Penn Kemp. Kemp wrote…
Best of the Net 2021 Nominations
We’re very excited to announce our nominations for Best of the Net 2021. The super talented Gray Hunt has laid…
“Distance and Memory,” a Side A Essay by Jason Zuzga
My grandmom Victoria (Tomaro) Stracquadanio, born in Boiano, Italy, immigrant to Bound Brook, New Jersey, subsequently married John of Modica,…
“Cloud-bellies Full of Virgin Birds”: Arturo Desimone Reviews TENSION : RUPTURE, poetry by Cutter Streeby, paintings by Michael Haight
In the prologue to Tension : Rupture poet Cutter Streeby admits to the unpredicted challenges of collaboration between two artists…
“Buoyant Also”: Liana Jahan Imam on Aisha Sasha John’s TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED
Aisha Sasha John’s most recent chapbook begins with a short page that might double as scrolling titles at the start…
Saturday Morning Chapbook: EXPENDABLES, a poetry collection by Emma Villazón
In Emma Villazón’s own words, the title of her first collection Temporeras, or “migrant woman farm hands,” translated by Thomas…
BOYFRIEND PERSPECTIVE, a debut collection of poetry by Michael Chang, reviewed by Stephen Scott Whitaker
Queerness, in Michael Chang’s Boyfriend Perspective, expands infinitely outward and inward in this full-length collection by the non-binary poet. Chang…
“The Stories We Tell to Keep Ourselves Alive”: Wendy Bourgeois Interviews Thea Prieto, Author of FROM THE CAVES
Thea Prieto’s debut From the Caves, winner of the Red Hen Novella Award, contains an entire post-apocalyptic world that is…
“The Reasonable Liminality of SILENT HILL 2”: Chris Kelso in Conversation with YouTuber Jacob Geller
As an educator, I can confirm my controversial belief (and with some certainty) that video games are the nascent form…
