Two Poems by Joanna C. Valente

I’m Tired of Men Telling Me They’re Afraid I’m Going to Write about Them It isn’t a dream when you … More

“Glorious Fragments”: Andrew Farkas Interviews Ron MacLean, Author of WE MIGHT AS WELL LIGHT SOMETHING ON FIRE

We Might As Well Light Something on Fire, Ron MacLean’s collection, immediately interested me because, in a time when … More

Nick Francis Potter is the author of New Animals (Subito Press). His work has recently been published in … More

In the medieval woods of 1307, a gentle woodcutter and a spinsterly-type lived in a pristine cottage and shared … More

We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections … More

There is a universe where all the carwashes are haunted. Where there are creaks and groans and disembodied hands … More

Matthew Thorburn’s new book of poems, The Grace of Distance, was published by LSU Press in August 2019. He’s also the author … More

The very last thing: the roof rose up seamlessly from the house, sat perfectly still a hundred feet above … More

Pareidolia In summer we make stories for the ungrowing seasons, the sweatspeckled back of the blue sky made real … More

The ghosts had always been loud. Like rats or squirrels, they scampered in and out of our homes, tampering … More

She speaks thirty seconds, a mere thirty seconds, after I ignore her for five years, and then I’m back. … More

In a Late Stage It’s not a question of outrunning the bear; it’s a question of perfectly seasoning the salmon. … More