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A Gutting

Articulation

The Unevacuated

The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Letting Go: The History of New York City

“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

Twenty-Five Feet into the Sky

​I’ve been sleeping on a tiny second-floor back porch of an older east side house that is not my home. Uncovered and open to...

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Nothing Person, 1970s

Content warning: Descriptions of sexual harassment and sexual assault. “Take your clothes off so I can see your muscles.” He says it almost offhandedly, without...

Clothespins

Pronunciation

One Good Horse

Mount Hunger

The God of Luck

1. Jason saw the island just once, when the monsoon clouds briefly released their clammy grip on the skies and its smudgy silhouette appeared on...

Editors in Chief

Passing Through

Bar Talk

Joy

A Gutting

Womb slabs a surgical tray and my heart— a ship of Thesus ripples outside its body. An odd pulse strokes the masslessness of pain buys all in to profit an exhale. I sigh a knife silver enough to eclipse fusion—a line of salt...

Articulation

The Unevacuated

Nutrition Problems

Cashew

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading