Genre: Featured

Adam Cheshire

"I tried to play myself into another hypnotic forgetfulness, but I kept tumbling down the mountain, never finding another good rhythm. Her face floated before me with that glint of pity. If only I could disappear, I thought. How much better to be lost."

jamilla vandyke-bailey

"and isn’t this beautiful? and frightening?/this beatbeatbeating beneath your wrists;/it’s delicate and wild and turbulent and here."

Joe Baumann

"And although a small blip in my growing up, who knows how the trajectory of my life that followed might have shifted had I not spent months dwelling on Kerri Strug and imagining what it would be like to meet her, to know her, to befriend her."

Ana Fortuna

"We spill words on the street/afraid dreaming of vessels/but when we say goodbye/the gesture, like a wave,/draws houses on the pavement"

Roy Bentley

"if you're wondering, I come down on the side of loving him/bastard that he could be"

Cheryl Dumesnil

"Susan and I agree: there is a lot of life in this wrestling match with death. So much to be explored. So I am writing. We are writing."

Paul G. Heller

"We were grateful: The Buddha had given us a concept of which Form B was ignorant. And that evening, we astounded our siblings and our parents with The Buddha’s fiery wisdom: 'The present is now and now and now.'"