“Eat me up, my love, or else I’m going to eat you up. Fear of eating, fear of the edible, fear on the part of the one of them who…
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Kiki Petrosino is the author of four books of poetry: White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020), Witch Wife (2017), Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009), all from Sarabande Books. She holds…
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DEC 3 garlic coconut milk green onions rice noodles avocado bread spring mix …
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Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. He is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the ‘Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the…
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During this world-wide pandemic lock down, I am sitting on the couch in the living room of the apartment I am renting in Montevideo, Uruguay, watching the Argentinian food channel…
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Here is a list of things you can eat that will fill your stomach, not your conscience: Diet Coke Lettuce Trident gum Cigarettes Cigarettes don’t fill your stomach, they fill…
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K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her debut novel BESTIARY is forthcoming from One World / Random House on September 8, 2020. Here, she…
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When the stove in my Brooklyn apartment started to leak gas last year, the gas company sent a technician, a burly man with a sunburned scalp, who told me that…
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Amaranth Borsuk is the author of the poetry collections Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press) and Handiwork (Slope Editions). She works at the intersection of print and digital media with an emphasis on artists’ books, installation, and digital/print hybrids. Her collaborative…
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Had the stairwell been crowded like it usually is, I might not have noticed. But the afternoon before campus closed for Thanksgiving most of the students had already gone, stricken…
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Anne K. Yoder is the author of two poetry chapbooks, and her fiction has appeared in Fence, New York Tyrant, and Make Lit, among other publications. She is a staff writer for The Millions and a member…
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YOU COULD DO ANYTHING YOU WANTED a found poem using language from the NYT Minus Context Twitter account You could eat a watermelon in the subway— eat the earth and…
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July 2020. Before dawn. I start a pot of hot black coffee. Wait for my divorce from Jasper to go through. Spill coffee on the tiny black tile of the…
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Confession, like chicken soup—or in this case, mushroom and barley soup—is good for the soul. And I’m not talking about just any old mushroom and barley soup. A bowl of…