Tori Malcangio
Tori Malcangio I am Ready. I am not Ready. I show up to a post-op appointment I don’t have. The cardiology receptionist tells me I’m three days early; I’ve confused [...]
Fall 2025
FALL 2025 POETRY Lana Hechtman Ayers, Prayer Is a Painted Lavender Field Margaret F. Browne, To build a wasp's nest Samuel Burt, Empire Is Joseph Chaney, Wrong-Footed Ian Hall, Love [...]
Review: Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul
Review: Sucker Punch: Essays by Scaachi Koul Reviewed by Makenzie Stuart St. Martin's Press. 2025. 254 pages. What are the things that you whisper about behind closed doors? The things [...]
Review and Mini-Interview: Jennifer Loyd
A Review of Ghost in the Archive by Jennifer Loyd & Mini-Interview with the Author Review: Ghost in the Archive Reviewed by Bleah Patterson Conduit Books & Ephemera. 2025. 76 [...]
Interview: Ishion Hutchinson
What’s in a Name?: An Interview with Ishion Hutchinson Ishion Hutchinson is the winner of the 2025 Rilke Prize for his book-length poem, School of Instructions. His other collections include [...]
Jeffrey Amos
Jeffrey Amos Witness Trees The Town Charter. The town of Ada, Texas was founded in the shade of an apple tree on August 15th, 1887, when Arthur Gentry, Caleb Mills, [...]
Jeff McLaughlin
Jeff McLaughlin Safe There was the writing spider poised ominously over the back door. There was the textured, colorless snakeskin coiled beside the front sidewalk, papery to the touch, it [...]
Christie Tate
Christie Tate Where's the Beef?: Hamburgers, Disordered Eating, and the Lone Star State During a lull in a group therapy session one morning, Jessica turned to our therapist and said, [...]
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Lana Hechtman Ayers Prayer Is a Painted Lavender Field I remember van Gogh’s Lavender Field II not with my eyes but a sense closest to proprioception how my body held [...]
Margaret F. Browne
Margaret F. Browne To build a wasp's nest 1. A wasp builds her nest from paper—builds paper from wood in the mouth, wood from the world she gathers upon her [...]
Samuel Burt
Samuel Burt Empire Is Frail and flint-toothed, like rusted ice picks, we stumble from the monotone wreck of the city into yawning silence, into alarm— two pheasants, a stillness, and [...]
Joseph Chaney
Joseph Chaney Wrong-Footed For Blake Burr When my friend’s daughter refused to wear shoes on the right feet (they felt good turned against the arches), my friend let her choose [...]