Our lines stretch and waver; pieces of DNA from an ancient spool reach out tentative to touch parallel lives, wanting to envelop,...

Cela Xiè is currently pursuing an MFA at North Carolina State University. His poetry has been published by Querencia Press, Gyroscope...

will they remember how she needed to feel the ocean, how it brought her visions of a lover left behind in another life, before she was...

I read a poem that takes up half the book. There are boys crying in the cornfields of its pages. A living will tucked into the stanzas of...

I. jennette, i’ve encouraged my mother to delete her will. it’s unnecessary. would there be a squabble, the kind siblings wield when they...

1 climbs the bluff to the oceanside cemetery— patches of pink plastic geraniums and plaster angels baseball caps, rosaries in fenced...

Shreds of what was once a suit hang tattered from his thin shoulders. Looking like he has walked a thousand miles, he leans against the...

The tree is topless, all trunk. Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when...

In the upstairs hallway, I struggle with the intruder while downstairs the boys try to figure out the rotary phone to dial the...

To the physicist and artist, both sides of the coin are the same: truth-beauty reduced to particle-waves, images...

I’m Just Like This I like getting tattoos because they’re a socially acceptable form of self-harm I like $3.79 transactions on my credit...

In Mrs. Pruette’s class, we wrote all year to fellow third graders in a neighboring district. I was paired up with a popular kid who was...

My room’s view is of a Home Depot at the base of a giant American flag dying violently in the sunset. Perched against more pillows than...

Michael Blaine grew up on the Eastern Shore in the mostly agricultural town of Laurel.  He studied English at Ole Miss and holds a...

We entered Beijing at night, eight hours spent jostling on a train, pacing down rows of seats; hills running from us, land smoothing...

Rows of naked faces—no one sees me now— absorbed before the actors, titillated by tragedy, while I’m safe in Row 25, you in Row 24,...

Jason Fraley is a native West Virginian who lives, works, and periodically writes in Columbus, OH. Current and prior publications include...

Mira Rosenkotz writes, cooks, and lives outdoors as much as possible. Their work is heavily influenced by their environment and the...

Jory Mickelson is the author of three books of poetry Picturing (2025) , All This Divide, and Wilderness//Kingdom, winner of the High...

I. I found out how the butterfly lives, how sunbeams lap against its wings. II. There is always a yellow bird darting around the river,...