Janice needed to get off the phone. She needed to sit in silence. A minute before, I had told her about my plans to meet up with a friend, a…

I first met Divya Victor in 2014. She was tasked with giving the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics, hosted by Small Press Traffic. Victor’s lecture was unapologetic…

Fela Kuti – Fela’s London Scene (1971) You fall asleep after smoking a six-paper joint and wake up to find that all the ants within a mile of your house…

Ludic Writing is a series of narratives generated through play, exploring the prospect of “Games as Writing Prompt.” Bartlett’s Memory is an extended work of fiction in three volumes, inspired by…

Landia by Celina Su Belladonna*, 2018 112 pages / Belladonna*   In her debut collection of poetry, Celina Su meditates on the everydayness of large-scale political and economic processes—be it gentrification, state…

Featured Image Credit: Hungry Robin by Peter Trimming via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) The ruckus? An agitated robin, incapable of full flight in the tight quarters of our house, flitted…

[Image Credit: Dolores Ayerza, “Luz a los indígenas 1,” 2017] Everyone strays from the road. It extends from the paved avenue to a barren plot. An electricity tower protrudes from the…

There was music when the cage door closed behind me. That I could hear it surprised me. Hear it over the thumping bass line of my walkout track. Over the…

Jeff Jackson is the author of Mira Corpora (2013 Two Dollar Radio) and the forth-coming novel Destroy All Monsters (2018 FSG Originals) which is being released this October. Don DeLillo…

Woman, Running Late, In a Dress by Dallas Woodburn Yellow Flag Press, 2018 178 pages / Yellow Flag   It’s confounding to have the ghost of your seven year old sister haunt…

  E. Hughes is a poet from San Jose, California. She is the first annual winner of the Mireyda Barraza Martinez Poetry Prize for Social Justice and a 2019 Pushcart…

The light on my side of the bed is not working.  You switch sides with me, so I can stay up to read Richard Bausch’s short story collection Something Is…

I was standing on line at Austin Drugs in Great Neck, Long Island when I noticed a heavyset man three people ahead of me whose aura was as weak as…

Ludic Writing is a series of narratives generated through play, exploring the prospect of “Games as Writing Prompt.” Bartlett’s Memory is an extended work of fiction in three volumes, inspired by…