Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden
I answered an ad for a summer housesitting job and drove two hours into the hills to get there.
Issue 49: Spring 2020
Fiction
Vanishing Point
For the first two weeks of kindergarten, Reagan tells her classmates she has sticky venom palms and two invisible eye stalks sprouting from the top of her head because she is a goblin princess.
Memories of the Drowned Whale
Mama is dead. She died peacefully in her bed as I lay numb by her side.
Poetry
tankas for a buried town
i. wounds of lost train tracks / burnt into indifferent green –
Essays
PHANTOM FLOWER
On Saturday in Prospect Heights I saw a girl slapping flowers. With every slap, she said: Flower.
Modern Fables
I've not known Noah long when I ask if he’s ever killed an animal.
Interviews
Destruction and Renewal: An Interview with Conyer Clayton
Conyer Clayton’s debut full-length poetry collection, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite, employs dream logic and seemingly disparate images to explore loss and addiction.
Of Re-writing, Reclamation, and Unredacting: An Interview with Sue Goyette
I was living in Toronto when I read my first book by Halifax poet Sue Goyette.
A Conversation Between Kim Davids Mandar and Jeremy Luke Hill
They invoke the process of filtering one iteration of art into another, forming a kind of a reflection on artistic interpretation that echoes with cultural appropriation as a theme.
Reviews
A Floorplan of the Self: Memory and Body in John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Vanishing Monuments
In the last act of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Vanishing Monuments, the protagonist, Alani Baum, recalls a photograph their mother, Hedwig, took of them as a child, a picture of them digging holes in the backyard.
Hungry, breathing: a review of Noor Naga’s Washes, Prays
Again and again in my life, teachers have tried to explain how a poem separates from prose.
