Hello. It’s been a few months. A lot is… happening! At the time I’m sending this to my editor, I’ve been in my apartment for several weeks straight, leaving once…

when you’re loud i don’t know where i am are there people who don’t dream are there people who never sleep are there people who look like me why isn’t…

There was never any water It had turned into glass In the age of porcupines and dragonflies Before we drew complete circles to count the hours I found myself work…

I like the modesty of the display cases; their white frames arranged like paragraphs on the wall. Within each, a bird or a group of birds, mounted against a light…

It can feel like a labour-intensive process, but I’ve found that there’s huge appreciation, from both the poets and the readers, when effort is made to give the words a beautiful home.

October 24, 2019   Dear Marissa, You know that lonely feeling, the one where your heart hurts so bad it feels like it ruptured? Like in those National Geographic photos…

Dayo looked towards the train terminal and thought of all the ways he could die right now. Jumping in front of it, or stampeded by even-toed pouch animals—let’s call them…

May Picture, Paul Klee, 1925 . . . the act and the potential in the space of the event, in the event-ness of the event. —Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx…

You lie to me If flowers, thorns, and sea Told me a city I’m at an end   You write me graves Masked for rain Then two bright eyes An…

Igor Laze crafts a classic album with a true knack for storytelling on the soulful “Departure”. The attention to detail feels profound for not a gesture is wasted. Every single…

Image Credit: Charles Landseer   We were told a lot about a medical student’s first time in the anatomy lab. We were told that our donors, which is what we…

Warning: This article contains spoilers In Norman Lebrecht’s Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, he introduces anxiety – defined as “a sense of dread or apprehension” and…

Image Credit: Carsten Lenz   There are four tunnels on the drive between the house I grew up in and the house I live in now. Four hours of black…

LAUREN BARNETT is a comic artist and painter. She’s been posting a new comic every day for over 12 years (now on Instagram ) and has a bunch of books…