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February 28, 2019 | Fiction

Today on Dagobah, Ep. 2: "The Stick"

Josh Sippie

Previously on... Episode 1: "The Landing"

Yoda had nothing with him other than the clothes on his back and the debris inside of the pod. There was no need for anything else. He had left his

February 28, 2019 | Poetry

3 Poems

Tom Paine

I’m in conversation with Helen Dudley about “Reed-Song” 
her poem published in Poetry, 1915.

February 27, 2019 | Poetry

Stone Song 

Jaya Stenquist

All day Iphigenia 
so far from the man I came to see.
Haven’t we tired of famous men? Shouldn’t I 
have my shoulders back, chin straight—I was given graces
that distract from the tissues in my

February 26, 2019 | Nonfiction

People Like Us

Wells Woodman

I didn’t realize, when we were falling in love, that her father was a pathological extrovert.

February 25, 2019 | Poetry

Two Poems: Sequences from Songs of Displacements

Shao Wei

17.
 

He who left home built the biggest steel bridge over the long river

The bridge was a success for millions of people
But he who built it died on it

His mother back in the village

February 22, 2019 | Fiction

Geronimo

Molly Anders

You are dancing naked and you think you’re alone, but someone is watching. It’s Red, your daughter.

February 19, 2019 | Poetry

Two Poems 

Ayesha Raees

Here Rests An Alien At Her Foreign Home. 

The internet is shit.
The time is wrong. 
No one lets me eat
what I want. Here 
is a roach trying to swim 
upside down. Here 
is a garden full of

February 18, 2019 | Fiction

After All Disintegrating as an Active Mode

Helen McClory

People are still here! Said the dog’s eyes.

February 15, 2019 | Nonfiction

Lineup

Kate Olsson

There is a ceramic pot full of my mother’s cigarette butts on the front steps of my childhood home, hot-glued back together by my father after one of our cats saw a chipmunk, and went for it.

February 15, 2019 | Poetry

Two Poems

Virginia Konchan

Rhapsody
 

I opened the window so I could hear people.
But all I heard was the wind rushing,
fine garment of nothingness, like tulle.
You sent me a handout listing various
cognitive

February 14, 2019 |

Iolanta & Bluebeard’s Castle: double bill

Michael Mungiello

The first time I went to the opera I went because I wanted to see a man go to hell. My dad got us tickets to Don Giovanni and at the end Don Giovanni refuses to apologize for the terrible things he’s

February 14, 2019 | Poetry

150 Dollars

Big Bruiser Dope Boy

it's dead at the bar so I say
"sure but I'm not in college
and I'm not wearing underwear

February 13, 2019 | Poetry

Jet Lag

Marianne Chan

Dream that you are asleep 
beneath a mosquito net 
next to your mother
who is always singing. 
Forget that you are sixty. 
Time flies when you’re 
surviving with meals to eat, 
people to talk

February 12, 2019 | Nonfiction

Guinea Pigs

Simon Graham

A dog would live too long. An axolotl would stink the house. Reptile equipment is confusing, complex. I’m allergic to cats. What I really wanted was a sibling, or my father. I was thirteen. We bought

February 8, 2019 | Nonfiction

Seeing the Sun

Lauren Krauze

“You should just ask yourself what your needs are,” Stephanie says. She raises an eyebrow, takes a sip of sangria, swallows loudly. “Once you know, then you’ll meet the right guy.”

I glare

February 8, 2019 | Poetry

Pan and the Nanny Goat

Andrea Jurjevic

Pan and the Nanny Goat

                         After ancient Pompeii marble sculpture
 

The God of the Wild yanks his lover's chin hair, 
clasps her knee, his godhood fully aroused.

February 7, 2019 | Fiction

Now is Not The Time To Be Different

Judyth Emanuel

She hands me a carved pineapple. Big and heavy.

February 6, 2019 | Fiction

Martha, My Shapeshifting Friend

Lanny Durbin

OUR CHEESE FRIES WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

February 5, 2019 | Fiction

King King II

Harris Lahti

Moments before we depart for his fifty-fourth birthday bowling extravaganza, King-King decides he would rather eat lunch at Fat Nancy’s

February 5, 2019 | Fiction

THE ANSWER IS, PROBABLY NOT

Norris Eppes

In the open office, everyone has questions. Now you have questions.

February 4, 2019 | Nonfiction

Marco

Keith David Langston

It was 2006, and I had just arrived in Florida for a marine biology excursion sponsored by a certain theme park that dabbles in ocean rehabilitation. To spare myself from any lawsuits, let’s just call it Ocean Planet.

February 1, 2019 | Nonfiction

You Were Really Big

Luke Dumas

I live a life of humiliation, but the most embarrassing, most shameful thing I ever did was get thin for a couple years.

February 1, 2019 | Nonfiction

What a Gaze of Raccoons Taught Me About Fear

Anne Foster

When I arrive at my assigned campsite I find. cheerios scattered everywhere.