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September 21, 2026 | Poetry

Four Poems (Cunus Response Project)

Christian McDonough

I have developed an awareness / Of my need to perform this fervor  / And what I thought was fear / Turned out to be excitement.  

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September 21, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Kersea Calhoun

The house’s cracked smile
hides behind spines of oak trees.

THE MANY MEN IN MY LAS MENINAS  photo

September 21, 2026 | Fiction

THE MANY MEN IN MY LAS MENINAS 

Greg Gerke

If I got what I wanted I would actually be doing what I’d wanted to do all along, step inside not history, but living art itself. And for this I would undoubtedly be considered a bad mother—many easily burning me at the stake.

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September 20, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Peace in My Bowels

Julie Morse

My girl smells like maple syrup and hay.

September 19, 2026 |

The Crosswalk 

Joe McPhee

Her drink and legs they're everywhere. 

September 19, 2026 | Interview

HOBART INTERVIEW with DANIELLE CHELOSKY

Danielle Chelosky/Elizabeth Ellen

Fiction or nonfiction
Autofiction :)

September 18, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Victoria Reyes

i tell them of the violences endured / & how i began working here at 17. / five days later: no longer able to speak, / nor walk, frozen in stillness.

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