— 1 — The act of bearing witness. Typically, to witness something implies observing criminal activity or observing a spectacular event. When often, the most profound act of bearing witness…

July is different. I invited readers to submit prompts and many did. Then I invited readers to choose a prompt and do three minutes of fevered writing. Many did. I…

Yes, I am a few weeks late. Technically a lot of companies give out their dividends after they have taken a chance to reflect, look back on the last quarter,…

[Photo Source: techcrunch.com] Victoria, the case file said, was eighty-one at the time of her death. While I waited for photographs and video clips to download, I started inputting some…

Jenn Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize) and Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Series, University of Arkansas Press). Her…

In general, we’re hoping the publishing world becomes less stuffy, more about sharing ideas and work and just having fun. Not everything has to be so “serious,” in that the institutionalized aspect of it is so off putting and snobbish and gatekeeping at times. Most of all, we want more experimentation all around.

[Photo Credit:  Buzzfeed] He’d stumbled through the frenzied aftermath. Hospital, police, morgue, autopsy, coroner’s report. And people to call. Terri, again and again. His sister in Seattle. What about his…

Raptor On the phone, you describe a hawk stalking a wren on the woodpile. Probably a Cooper’s, you say, not sure which bird to root for. The hawk has all…

  disarmament farewell’s occasion composes two flushed and open-mouthed against one very still for an elsewhere dream unfolds in the right eye as the left transmits to the machine proprioceptive…

Irrational Games’ BioShock: Infinite, released in 2013, transitions from the underwater world of Rapture to Columbia, a floating city in the sky that makes parallels with the United States capital,…

When reading Catherine Theis’ poetry, I’m frequently reminded of Godard’s 1963 film Contempt. As with that movie, Theis is interested in the way in which the classical Greco-Roman world (its…

This Open Collaboration is working out really well, thanks to those intrepid souls who are participating. We’re ready to go into Phase 3: the dis•articulations poem. Please read the instructions;…

There is a moment in Brad Listi’s Other People interview with David Shields (Episode 454) when Shields and Listi riff on Bill Murray anecdotes, where instantly, I wanted to sit…

Let’s say you have a little sister–one that’s only around when convenient for you. She’s less like a sister than an imaginary friend. Let’s say that’s what we call her:…