Micah Zevin: Two Poems from The Future

Personification: Extinction Chronicles Can we make more happen than burning to the ground and tears? Become a disappearing collection in … More

An Essay from the Future: “What the Birds See” by Janice Lee

—for and with AH Bird 1: How might we envision a future that is not ours, but could be? Bird … More

Vertical farming is coming The rain will grow your hair back Friends will be a dime-a-dozen Real ones will still … More

I sent one of my SMSs (Social Media Selves) to my friend’s reading way out in Longway Meadow. I didn’t … More

The Art of Dying We are all walking around, smelling like apocalypse— a fleshy earth musk not unlike summer squash. … More

Part 1: Man vs Nature After the president was eaten alive by bears on national television the country fell into … More

Ira finds an anthill, and instead of burning it, he watches the slow, tedious work of carrying a crumb into … More

my singularity injected wet wear makes me robotic hand flexing feel the mechanical brain feedback if I grab you tightly … More

I Didn’t Get to My Rage Yet I saw the man with the kid having too much fun together to … More

Disaster Movie At the edge of the locust storm our toes Make a quiet music a prayer for broken Wings … More

Then his pancakes come and I’m like Please leave the flowers— and really, after his question (“have you ripped a … More

When the zombies overtook the Lakeshore School District, the Dads were the first to go. They were crossword Dads. … More