MY SKIN Because I dream of you as skin and door … I know you have been sublime…
Joaquin Macias Reviews WOMEN AND MEN, a new edition of Joseph McElroy’s classic novel
Women and Men, by Joseph McElroy. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dzanc Books, May 2018. 1300 pages. $25.00, paper. In the new…
What We’re Reading: June 2019
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections…
Flash Fiction: “Slow Burn” by Kristina Ten
The explorer wakes up on a strange planet with no memory of how she got there, clawing at the…
Poetry: “The Bars, the Anthem” by Imran Boe Khan
Down here, spider blue’s sour candy singsong plays out like confession. On my walk home, civilians cleanse into pulpits,…
New Fiction: “Warehouse” by Chase Burke
Amazon’s warehouses are warehouses of commerce. Every item an American might desire, shelved and organized from floor to ceiling…
Poetry by Tamer Sa’id Mostafa: from triliteral roots
—after Craig Santos Perez [ra-ha-meem (womb):] i named my first star on a farmhouse roof in Kafr El Zayat …
A HAWK IN THE WOODS, a supernatural road novel by Carrie Laben (An Excerpt)
When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing… break her…
Five Poems by Vanessa Saunders
Blame It on a Woman Blame it on a woman. She who argues not for the accuracy, but for the…
Fiction: “Abandonment Issue” by Jason Hardung
Up in the corner, above my bed, a spider floats in the air. I’ve been watching it for an…
“The Minister’s Black Mass,” a short story by Chase Dearinger
When the fireplace was so full that the air grew heavy and beads of sweat broke out across his…
“Outside the door there is an animal writing my name in the blood of other animals”: William Lessard Interviews Adam Tedesco, Author of MARY OLIVER
With the publication of Mary Oliver (Lithic Press, 2019), Adam Tedesco gives us a cycle of poems that places topics…
