Reviewed by Isaac Fox Adam Graf and Mandy Peterat’s 2021 short film “Stained Skin” plays out in a grimy, windowless factory filled with machine sounds. It’s not clear where (or […]
“the world is cold and the cold is his world”: Review of Amy Cipolla Barnes’ “Page Six” (Cease Cows)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Amy Cipolla Barnes’ flash story “Page Six” is a world of paper: ears full of newspaper, food made of newspaper, paper clothes, a paper belly, a […]
“if you please, O Wise One”: Review of “The Wise American Poet Brings Peace to the Middle East” by Fargo Tbakhi (Prolit, December 2020)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Fargo Tbakhi’s “The Wise American Poet Brings Peace to the Middle East” begins with a question: “What is the value of poetry in a world so […]
Graduating and Going Forward: Senior Green Blotter Editors Share their Biggest Takeaways
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 […]
“‘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 […]