Paint this scene: imbue it with optimistic lighting à la Glee and the stench of yesterday’s cafeteria surprise à la…
Poetry: “when i say fuck men” by Mandy Shunnarah
when i say fuck men i don’t mean the verb that opens legs drops pants commands sex i mean the…
Six Poems from Oliver Baez Bendorf’s THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO X
*** Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of The Spectral Wilderness, which won the Stan &…
Three Poems by Kathleen Jones
The Appropriate Cold —for Amy Your death fell with a thud that bruised the rest of us. Now I’m homesick…
“Marvel,” a lyric essay by Jennifer H. Fortin
Why does it bother me when others marvel at what I don’t find wondrous? It has to do with naiveté,…
“An Important Message from a Mysterious Place,” poetry by Meredith Blankinship
If the haunting was a haunting you deserved how do you expect to live without the quietude of my displeasure?…
“Notes from Toledo,” a micro-essay by Megan Martin
We got in a car and drove to Toledo. Toledo felt like bad news. I thought it was just your…
Two Poems by Jim Whiteside
The Waters There is a flood in my mother’s hometown that will wash away more than gravel roads, leave behind…
LIVE FROM MEDICINE PARK, a novel by Constance Squires, reviewed by Deidre Elizabeth Comstock
Live from Medicine Park, by Constance Squires. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, October 2017. 224 pages. $19.95, paper. In…
