Hilary Sideris 1609 It’s been so long that when I text the link to a Times piece about Manhattan’s tulip trees out of whose soft, straight trunks the Lenape dug their canoes, the trout teeming in streams, the West Side’s white sand beach, so many flowers Dutch sailors smelled them from the sea, and say […]
Read MoreMay Hathaway Autumn 2019 Sitting in Whole Foods after school, doing homework with my boyfriend (left earbud in, knee against his, papers scattered), is the only time I understand Whitman, and for once I know how to live with being small because my essay is finished and my playlist is looping and my hands are […]
Read MoreJon Petruschke Our headlights catch them between the lake and their clothes. Jon Petruschke is a writer and therapist who lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and two cats, and is at work on his second book of haiku.
Read MoreM. R. Simpson 6:12 AM – 6:14 AM Two minutes is just enough time to microwave popcorn, to take out the trash, for the moon to eclipse the sun, for a plane to crash — and so, these things happen. M. R. Simpson is a grocery clerk and waitress from southern Pennsylvania.
Read MoreHowie Good Birds of a Feather The same blue jay returns throughout the morning to the empty feeder, Howard Hughes watching his favorite movie, Ice Station Zebra,* over and over for years on end. *43% on Rotten Tomatoes Howie Good is only rarely this whimsical.
Read MorePaul South If I put my ear to your ear, would I hear the inland sea? Paul South has been writing for 20 years, and his arm is getting really sore.
Read MoreIan Willey Time to Cool Down I realized how much this situation has changed me while watching some dumb movie and there was this scene where a woman moves towards a man slowly as the music lets you know that this is the moment when they come together and become a something and their lips […]
Read MoreIan Willey Strange Comfort When my car died after a long and debilitating illness everyone said the same stuff about moving on and you should be thankful for this, that, and the other thing, except for my neighbor, the one who’s always driving over our lawn when backing out, who put down his hoe and […]
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