by Alison Prine | Feb 17, 2016
In the woods behind the house I built a tiny city from sticks and rolled matchbox cars down moss-lined streets where everyone in every building kept my secret. I collected candles of all shapes. Arranged and rearranged them in my bedroom, but I wouldn’t let them...
by Charles Harper Webb | Feb 9, 2016
Does not the world—that fat lout— stomp on their corns, hard? Do they not starve for sweets that, eaten, stab their cavities? Let them aouga as you make a legal left. Let them howl as you drop the last on-sale angelfood cake into your cart just as they run up,...
by Gary Fincke | Feb 5, 2016
You think the weather is predictable? All this year where the worst is minus ten And tornadoes are news from Ohio? We’ve had school every day, not one delay, But don’t be fooled, just you wait, now listen: In less than a day, sixty-eight inches of rain Has fallen, and...
by Denise Duhamel | Oct 21, 2015
You had Hairon Broadway with naked actors while we had the tame movie version with Beverly D’Angelo and Treat Williams, but you can never take the original Evita from us, with Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone, the former who now plays Saul on Homeland, the latter who...
by Maria Terrone | Sep 23, 2015
The masses chatter wherever they mass, the classes chatter even during tests, while the Chattering Classes speak for themselves alone, testing others’ patience. The patients, depleted from chatter surfeit, are admitted to the institution and quickly plug their ears....
by Benjamin Keating | Aug 29, 2015
1. I think you might have a stable of crazy thoughts in your chest, you said. We were driving home in the Subaru, we were sitting on the couch with nothing in our hands and the movie paused. The thought of us not loving each other was not a thought. I inhaled it as a...
