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How to Say Goodbye to Your Mother by Damhnait Monaghan
1. Always say ‘Love you Mom,’ before you hang up the phone. 2. Every time you visit her, wonder if it’s the last time. 3. When the taxi’s in her driveway, engine running, and the driver has slung your...
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How to Leave Home by Lorraine Avila
Pretend the section 8 apartment your mother fought to put over your head is no longer enough. You grown, you gotta go. Fill the apartment you’ll always call home to the brim with memories that...
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12/21/12 by Carly Mastroni
Zoe and I were not afraid when they announced the world was going to end. We embraced it. They said Nibiru was hurtling towards us to destroy the universe in one quick flash. We accepted it without...
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An Incredibly Brief and Unfinished History of Sound by Kirsten Reneau
I. They don’t think that the Big Bang was much like a bang at all. It was a rumbling bass that first shook the universe so hard that galaxies seeped out of nothingness, dripping dark matter and future...
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Art and the Dying Time by Lee Reilly
We are stuck on the Magritte. There’s a background. The tree is in front of the background and much of the horse is in front of the tree, except when the background is in front of the horse. And the...
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Fast Girls by Robert Burke Warren
Todd tossed his Penthouse magazine to the floor and grunted. I looked up from my copy of Hustler. There sat my friend, Buddha-like on a pallet of Sesame Street cushions, face crumpled in a frown,...
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Review: Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City by Philip Brady
Reviewed by J. Michael LennonA Magnificent Keening A blurb on the back cover of professor-publisher-poet Philip Brady’s new book, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (Knoxville: University of...
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Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Reviewed by Jennifer JenkinsMichelle Obama was destined to become the icon the world knows now. The foundation set by her family taught her to embrace the path of truth, as unpleasant as it may be at...
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Review: A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of...
Reviewed by Daphnee McMasterGerardo M. Gonzalez’s debut memoir, A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of Education (Indiana University Press, August 2019), is a heart-warming and...
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WRITING LIFE: Where Worlds Collide – Writing and Yoga by Jennifer Lang
During my first MFA residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I sat spellbound in Barbara Hurd’s lecture on paradox. She showed images of Andy Goldsworthy’s unique art installations in nature. Using...
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