By Lauren Walters A gaggle of bright-eyed first-year students walks into a humanities classroom on a Tuesday evening in the fall of 2018. They’ve heard the boasted advantages (real-world publishing […]
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“‘Maybe it’s a good thing in a way’”: Review of Kyle Seibel’s “As Planned, We Stopped for Sandwiches” (Flash Frog, May 16, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Kyle Seibel’s flash story “As Planned, We Stopped for Sandwiches” begins in a mundane place: a St. Louis deli, where a family has stopped to eat […]
“If you can write, you can draw”: Rebecca Fish Ewan’s Doodling for Writers
reviewed by Leila May My sister is an artist. You can trace her practice across the years: thick pencil marks and shades of grey into the wafts of watercolors blossoming […]
Making Mosaic of My Life: First-Timer’s Reflection on AWP
By Marah Hoffman For me, this has been a year of unmaking and unmasking. The pandemic’s necessity for us to conceal half our faces is a potent symbol of how […]
“I’ll teach her how to say goodbye”: Review of Renee Zhan’s “O Black Hole!”
reviewed by Isaac Fox In Renee Zhan’s short film “O Black Hole!”, a woman (Loré Lixenberg) faces a very tragic, very commonplace question: How do I deal with the fact […]
“the angry seeds”: Review of Zoe Raine’s “When My Girlfriend’s Head Becomes an Orange in the Middle of the Night” (Invisible City, March 16, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Zoe Raine centers her flash story “When My Girlfriend’s Head Becomes an Orange in the Middle of the Night” around a relationship that is messy at […]
Unpacking the Divine Disguise of the Discriminate: A Review of Soon Jones’s “Church Gossip”
Reviewed by Lauren Walters It’s not news that Christianity can be an undoubtedly fraught subject for many queer individuals and writers. Historically, Christian ideologies and various translations of Christian texts […]
“the God of War exhaling through everyone’s lungs at once”: Review of W. Todd Kaneko’s “The Night of the Skywalkers” (Passages North, March 14, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox W. Todd Kaneko’s “The Night of the Skywalkers” is a series of “because”s—a string of answers to unasked questions, of causes without effects. The word “because” […]
Everyday Beauty, Everyday Bleakness: Review of Ted Kooser’s Red Stilts
reviewed by Isaac Fox Poets have been comparing stages of life with the seasons for a very, very long time. Over years, decades, and centuries, that metaphor has moved from […]
“(I fall in love with you again and again and again)”: A Review of Amie Souza Reilly’s “My Husband Knows I Love Pastries from Costco” (HAD, March 8, 2022)
Reviewed by Lauren Walters Amie Souza Reilly’s piece “My Husband Knows I Love Pastries from Costco” crafts an environment that, two years ago, would have been devastating and nearly unheard […]