Nonfiction
reviewed by Matt Lee
... In the twenty-first century, there are no flying cars or telepods ...
by Christopher Zeischegg
... I wrote myself into another novel and wrote my family too ...
by Andrew Felsher
... There was also a ceiling in our home that came with leaking and leaking and leaking ...
by Anne Noonan
... Create a believable narrative weaving together the following elements ...
by Peter Geier
... My mainstay was an IBM Selectric typewriter ...
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... people have learned to pull their limbs off for survival ...
On Going to See Francis Bacon's Man & Beast with S/Z
by Steve Finbow
... the preceding drawings are already hallucinatory ...
by Kate Neuman
... I think, now, that she wanted to have a home without anyone expecting her to be in it ...
by Sarah Neilson
... Soon, she implied, Your life will look like this ...
by Julz Harvey
... One summer before my dad chemicalized the pool ...
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... This is a writer who can accomplish hugely imaginative leaps with very little space, minimalist flash firing on all cylinders ...
by Lisa Levy
... Your level of clarity depends on how long and how bad it's been, as your insomnia likes to visit for days, even weeks ...
by Coty Poynter
... You're the guy who writes poetry on Instagram. You just had a book published, right? ...
by Michael Downs
... All night, the house's basement bulbs burn, windows at ground level shining. ...
by Timothy Parfitt
... As a kid who watched a lot of movies and read a lot of books, my lived experiences often lagged behind my imagined ones ...
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... its compassionate approach to feelings of fear ...
by John Banning
... I have fainted on the floor of a bathroom and woken up and gone into another bathroom and fallen asleep in there ...
by Laura Gaddis
... When I was pregnant the second time, I went for a dental cleaning ...
Caroline, or Girlhood is Just a Series of Small Deaths
by Maria Hardin
... We’re twelve year olds and draped over the plaid sofa in your living room ...
by Kevin Grauke
... When I was in second grade, a brown-haired girl named Camille ...
reviewed by Sean Sam
... When one of the cafeterias becomes inaccessible, the museum staff begin to starve. They turn to eating the exhibits....
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... In these poems, Bellinger explores the symptoms of a uniquely American breed of indoctrination...
by Will McMillan
... Before being transformed and disguised to look like bank cards ...
Satanas-Aestheticus: The Dragon-Scaled Scribe
by Lee Levinson
... Poetry, if truth can abscond from form, is a compendium of bestiary ...
Heart of Gold / A Burning Shape
by Kat Giordano
... Blair was co-captain of the swim team and built like it ...
by Amanda Briggs
... Enter the low-key child spying program presented to the kindergarten class of 1989 ...
by Unity
... The reptile lover peers out from the eyes of all the meth men I've loved ...
Who Will Touch You When Your Husband Dies?
by Martin Swanson
... she looked a bit too classy for this grocery store. Maybe someone I'd want to be touched by ...
by Monique Quintana
... I find myself cursing my grandmother for the body that she gave me ...
by S.J. Buckley
... When my parents separated, I would often come home to find my dad ...
by Clara Jeske
... I have never been afraid or unsettled in graveyards ...
by Naomi Rogers
... When ripe, the flower releases an enticing aroma ...
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... Melismas is a collection of—and about—small victories ...
by Matt Lee
... He exited the balcony, walked back into the barricaded office, and performed seppuku ...
Measures to Keep Water Out & Goats on the Freeway (Excerpts)
by Geri Gale
... Memoir is a form of homage ...
On the Practice of Surrender (Excerpt)
by Jake Valente
... A few months after Robert's first disappearance I receive a box in the mail ...
by Vivian Montgomery
... a person could be very ill, weak, forlorn, and if all they were able to do was soften into the embrace of this water, that would be enough. I floated and slowly turned ...
by Jack Carneal
... I leapt up and ran into the other room until the seizure passed, my heart hammering in my chest, my mouth dry ...
by Jonathan Rylander
... He tells me something in the way his uniform fits better than mine ...
reviewed by Matt Lee
... When you think you've started to piece the puzzle together, Melchor introduces a seed of doubt ...
by Melissa Wiley
... What always matters more is the impression that lingers long after the apple has been eaten. What matters for me about any given person or object is the feeling that floats about its edges ...
reviewed by Matt Lee
... This is a writer who can accomplish hugely imaginative leaps with very little space, minimalist flash firing on all cylinders ...
by Erik Anderson
... Many, if not most, writing students have to produce a version of The Dead Grandmother Essay. It’s almost a rite of passage ...
reviewed by Matt Lee
... This unpredictability is what makes Maierhofer so exciting to read. Strings of declarative statements written in all caps read like chaotic prose poems ...
reviewed by Ashley Wagner
... Williams exhibits a careful attention to sound, which makes up the root of each poem, which crackle like cold leaves on a path ...
Tao Te Ching (Ursula K. Le Guin rendition)
reviewed by Kathleen Nelo
... Previous translations did the job of converting the ancient Chinese into English, but to Le Guin, they felt awkward and clumsy; the beauty and elegance of the poetry in the text was lost ...
Falling Off the Edge of Nebraska
by Jack Livingston
... There was always something unsettling and unsaid about my sister. Things I would never understand. If my main emotions were daydreaming and anxiety, hers by contrast were humor and aggression. But on this trip, we are in sync ...
by Jess E. Jelsma
... We cruised toward the city with the windows down, still ten miles below the speed limit, but free of our shared burden, boundless with possibility ...
Why Baltimore’s Obsessed with Poe
by Christine Yates
... When Sir Edgar Allen was desolate and desperate, he sought solace in Baltimore, under the watch of the Maryland Poe Clan established several generations back by his great-grand-pappy Poe ...
by Ursula Pike
... if we left after school on Friday I could be eating sourdough waffles with my grandparents on Saturday morning. I always thought my mother took me there so I could be close to my grandparents. Now I wonder if she was going for herself ...
reviewed by Matt Lee
... Front and center is the tension between what it means to live in a country that represents the ideal best and absolute worst of civilization. There is a palpable undercurrent of menace throughout the book ...
reviewed by Kathleen Nelo
... The soft yet punching vocabulary, the delicate balance of the sound of language and the sound of nothing in between, and the interwoven feeling of shaking to death in the cold ...