The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland by Julia Madsen Trembling Pillow Press, June 2018 104 pages / Amazon   How does one know one’s own…

Chicken Vigil Who will believe me when I say my hens forgo their daily dig for bugs and choose instead to sit like saffron Buddhas beside their sister-hen whose legs…

There are so many ways to tell a story about desperation, and I have considered them all. I keep coming back to the same dark room in an eighth-floor Chicago…

Juliet the Maniac is now available from Melville House Andrew Byrds: Earlier on in your book, you make it a point to let the reader know this is a fictionalized…

image: “Congo Square” by Adéwálé Adénlé   For Harold Battiste, Jr. In New Orleans, I saw a reflection of myself in a stranger’s marbled tombstone. I turned away, but in…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Mother Winter is out now from Simon & Schuster Andrew Byrds: Mother Winter cordons itself off from traditional memoirs in that rather than present your life through concrete narrative you…

I pick up the flat fledgling looking for the fall in purple fluid swell filling transparent cranium, dark blue blooming under the pink sheer of skin, so thin. There’s no…

Fujiko Nakaya, Fog x FLO, Jamaica Pond, 2018 (courtesy of The Emerald Necklace Conservancy; photo by Melissa Ostrow) There is a game all children play. You lie on your back…

V: Cadenza | Silver-Tipped Swallow: “One of You Leaves First” The story is the same always: one of you leaves first & you both know who it’s going to be.…

1. Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 – Poco Allegretto Scene: 180 Sumac Dr., West Lafayette, Indiana   I am 8, dusting the living room on a winter Saturday morning. Through the…

The Book of the Last Word by Jesi Bender Whiskey Tit, May 2019 174 pages / buy from Whiskey Tit   chi·me·ra /kīˈmirə,kəˈmirə/ noun 1 a: capitalized: a fire-breathing she-monster in…

We were looking for mushrooms we were harvesting rosebuds we were sleeping our twenties we had burs in our socks with tamarind eyes with copper top cheeks they picked a…

New York duo LEYA were scheduled to start their set at noon at the Hotel Vegas Annex, some moody, experimental, and neoclassical sounds to begin my fifth day of music…