These poems are excerpts from the author’s book project Buena Vista. Told through a collection of flash fiction, short plays, lists, letters and essays, Buena Vista loosely chronicles the author’s journeys…

Arsenal/Sin Documentos by Francesco Levato Clash Books, August 2019 162 pages / Amazon   Francesco Levato’s Arsenal/Sin Documentos is, in a single word, timely. Comprised of 15 sections of blackout…

HOLDING THE LOOSE BONES CLOSE   My mother the morning of her surgery lies in a room where I am not The angelbones her hair is tied fraying in hospital…

Janice Lee & Andrea Quaid In one sense, the work featured in Plant Poetics and Beyond comes from the June 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference…

Alexa Poteet is a poet whose only studio is the world, and perhaps enough outer space to encompass the moon and one or two illustrious planets. Her work in progress…

Intro Wherein Chuck Greaves praises the erudition of Rex Stout, David Abrams hails Agatha Christie’s ability to breed distrust in teenagers, David Huddle discusses the shining sentences of J.D. Salinger,…

Out of Syllabus by Sumana Roy Speaking Tiger Books, March 2019 138 pages / Amazon   Out of Syllabus is Sumana Roy’s debut poetry collection. Roy, much acclaimed for her…

  MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions…

I was driving the old blue Volvo northbound on U.S. Route 89 through Chino Valley, bound for Las Vegas, while feeling content just to drift in and out of the…

The last time I belonged there, I straddled the steam hissing off the asphalt with my right foot on the curb at Charlotte Douglas International and my left on the rubber mat…

From the one ad we ran, we received 2,500 submissions the first 2 months and 6,000 in the four months that followed. We had enough to publish for a year or two and word of mouth carried us from there.

God Was Right by Diana Hamilton Ugly Duckling Press, November 2018 144 pages / Amazon   In her collection God Was Right, Diana Hamilton engages with an array of topics—sexual…

Did all friendships … involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? –Zadie Smith, Swing Time   My friendship with Lila began the day we decided…

fulfilling forgiveness as a skyline embodying , embroidering , holding patterns caused by a lifetime of regretting an accidental act of killing . you will have caused it to happen…