Monthly Verse
April 17, 2014ITINERARY (NEW COLOSSUS)
by Danniel SchoonebeekAbout Danniel Schoonebeek
Danniel Schoonebeek’s first book of poems, American Barricade, is out now from YesYes Books. A chapbook, Family Album, is also available from Poor Claudia. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, BOMB, Indiana Review, Guernica, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He writes a column on poetry for The American Reader, hosts the Hatchet Job reading series, and edits the PEN Poetry Series.
* This poem originally appeared in Maggy, a Literary Journal
One dream I have is the voice of the statue is gunfire.
Mother calls, the landlord calls—the line is silent.
I watch myself decompose in the mirror a minute.
I check for bites. I check nothing’s left of the oats.
I wait for a word to appear in my alphabet soup... read more >
APRIL ART CINEMA: Vector Equilibria
by Chris Landau
with music by Gene Coleman
Video excerpt from a site-specific projection installation
2013
April 03, 2014
Vector Equilibria is an exploration and celebration of the impact of the work of Buckminster Fuller on the science, technology and culture of today. The abstract animations of Chris Landau, combined with an original score by Gene Coleman...
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POETRY
The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish
by Joshua Weiner
April 10, 2014
Where is the edge between poetry and history, between history and memory? Joshua Weiner's collection The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, envisions poetry on a grand scale, a triptych of the title poem enveloped by the landscape panorama of “Rock Creek Park (II)” and ... read more >
Monthly Flash
April 03, 2014Hungary, 1944
by Sarah KobrinskyAbout Sarah Kobrinsky
Sarah Kobrinsky's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Magma Poetry, Jewish Quarterly (UK), Bayou, 100 Word Story, The Molotov Cocktail, Shampoo Poetry, Berkeley Fiction Review, among many others. She is the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of the City of Emeryville, CA.
A family is in hiding under a house. The youngest, a boy barely two, is the only one to sleep on a bed. The others sleep like well-dressed sardines on the floor—well-dressed, even here, to preserve a little dignity... read more >
DEBUT
Art by Clay Witt, poetry by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, fiction by Stephen Wade.
B/W PHOTO
Fiction by Peter Liu, poetry by Jonathan Greenhause, memoir by Verity Barudin.
PROGRESSIVE
Poetry by Vanessa Blakeslee, paintings by Vadis Turner, and a review of Boy.
PORTRAIT MASTERS
Art by Kehinde Wiley, fiction by Philip Kobylarz, and poetry by Nancy Carol Moody.
LINE
Billy Collins Interviewed, fiction by Erik Martiny, prose by Ori Fienberg.
YUMI SAKUGAWA
Jacob M. Appel Interviewed, art by Yumi Sakugawa, essay by Sean Carswell
SPRING 2014
POETRY
Sarah Palin Erased
Phillip Gross
SHORT STORY
Erik Martiny
ESSAY
Jeffrey Skinner
ART
Paul Kolker