Eventually I read a few manuscripts by people that hadn’t been published anywhere, and I knew they deserved to be out in the world, so I started Broken Sleep to publish the voices that weren’t getting recognition—and to focus on working-class writers to an extent.
Jane Huffman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere, and she is a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg…
[Image: “The Wide Night,” Rebecca Rebouché] She is the type of girl who goes to parties with open invitations, skirting the edges of the dance floor while the sea ebbs…
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…
Four doors down, next to the dumpster, lives a silver haired mother of misfits and magpies. She diagrams patterns of birds on the wing through scatters of millet and thistle…
I deserve to fail. I embrace that too. I will survive. It’s what I do. Over the last few months of 2019, I spoke with author Kenning JP García over…
Once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief. If you believe in the devil he will surely come striding down your road one…
A butterfly An absolute Tears the fabric Of an ending Lets in pure blue Again beginning A tale of fire A tale too. A butterfly Truthfully livid Flies a melting…
Catechesis, a postpastoral by Lindsay Lusby University of Utah Press, August 2019 (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) 64 pages / Amazon “Now: make it new…
Pond Scene 1 My damp feet trespass the berm at the pond’s edge, winter’s precocious thaw. Remnants of fall leaves scatter beneath her veil, lolling, wet in February’s death. I…
Photographs: © Isa Leshko My grandmother turned 86 in June, and, since then, she has been having some health and memory problems. It’s been sad and frustrating to watch her in…
Note: This essay contains significant spoilers of the film Parasite. Unlike tangible objects, such as purses, eyeglasses and cars; or, how someone eats their food; crooked teeth, plastic surgery, limited…
Chris set the reusable Viegut Funeral Home bag on the conveyer belt, went through security and waited. He wore the only pair of shorts he owned and one of his…
Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms.] by Justin Limoli Plays Inverse, 2014 85 pages / SPD / Amazon / Plays Inverse On Romulus, While Abel Sleeps [A Chthonic…
