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Middle Earth by Robert Beveridge
On December 9, 2019 by adminLower the boom, lower the cheese, lower the flag and see who still salutes. Pieces at half eight, a basket in the Presidential rose garden, unsure which restroom is safe or desirable. You find you can dip pretzels in anything once you’ve had a couple of joints and they still taste good. Breast milk took
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The Audiologist Said I Can Hear Grass Growing by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
On November 18, 2019 by adminAt Seven Seas diner sits a mother, stilland pale as an ivory carving—white hair pulledinto a tiny topknot, eyes—soft gray, open wide,barely blinking. Her face, breasts, belly, arms and legs are round like The Venus of Willendorf. Her daughter faces her with the same face, but her hair is dark, flowing, her body lithe, long, her eyes trained on her
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The Field Party by Darren Demaree
On October 21, 2019 by admin#50 i know the boneshaker i know the bones i know my father believed that only he was entitled to take deep breaths in our home ohio is full of fathers like that some of them gather at the field party to talk shit about us where we can hear them too many of my brothers
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Bread of Life by Laura Bass
On October 14, 2019 by adminFrom December of last year onward, I have thought about bread every day, without exception. It started about six months after I got married. I cried a lot those first few months, and though I would always tell my husband that I didn’t know why I was so upset, I can tell you now that
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Congregational Mourning Shoes by Susanna Baird
On October 14, 2019 by adminWe bring them down from high shelves in guest room closets. We carry them up from basement boxes where they rest next to strings of Christmas lights, enamelware pots, rakes, trunks full of mothballs and wool. Unbox, unbin pumps in leather if winter, patent if Easter has passed, heels thicker than strumpet but not too
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The Parents by Grace Reed
On May 10, 2019 by adminYou see, my parents were always picky about their food. They wouldn’t eat this, they wouldn’t eat that. Very choosy. Which sometimes got them in trouble. That’s why it was particularly peculiar on Thanksgiving Day that they ate the whole meal themselves. My mother does not like turkey, but she ate the thing whole… My
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Baltimore, I actually like it! By Natalie Jeffery
On April 25, 2019 by adminThe photo above was taken on West North Avenue in Baltimore City—right outside of Mondawmin. I was pursuing a photo series of the artist Iandry, a 2009 MICA graduate whose art decorates the city. He was painting the “Wall of Wisdom,” a mural which consists of six portraits of historical change makers: Frederick Douglass, Matthew
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Five Questions for Kyle Dargan by Charlotte Smith
On April 18, 2019 by adminI’ve been a huge fan of Kyle Dargan’s poetry ever since I first read Honest Engine, his fourth collection of poetry, for a school internship. This was my introduction to Dargan, who I now consider one of the most important young voices in poetry in the D.C. area, and maybe anywhere. In addition to writing
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Q&A with Andi McIver
On April 12, 2019 by adminThe following interview is with Andi McIver, the author of “Ubuntu,” which will appear in our next issue. “Ubuntu” is an amazing nonfiction essay about the life of McIver as she grows up in South Africa, a place still haunted with the remnants of Apartheid, having only just institutionally ended in the early 90s. “Ubuntu”