For a Coming Extinction
What if we are birds?Does that mean we also standon wires, tenderly, weightless.Are we in front ofor behind the red-tailed hawk?The last bird must watch us die.
Articles
On Family History and Fiction
To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is James Stewart III’s craft essay on fiction: In the mid-’80s, after a job promised to my father in California failed to materialize, …
Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay
To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is Shara Lessley’s craft essay on family secrets in nonfiction: Two gorillas crashed a Halloween party in 1975, befuddling their newlywed hosts. For …
Knowledge and Responsibility: A Review of Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit
To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is Jessica E. Johnson’s review of a novel: Fire Exit. Morgan Talty. Tin House, 2024. 256 pp. $28.95 (paper) As a poet who …
Muddying the Gulf: On Families and Secrets
To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is Sadia Hassan’s review of a poetry collection. Late to the Search Party, Steven Espada Dawson. Scribner, 2025. 966 pp. $18.00 (paper) I …
Weaving a Ne(s)t for Our Ghosts
To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is Jennifer S. Cheng’s craft essay on writing about family secrets: A family is woven by the stories it tells, as well as …
Dumpsters and Fires
Artist’s Statement and Interview My paintings are generally small, meticulous, and involve sustained observation of an otherwise ignored or quickly consumed image. Why/how did dumpsters and file cabinets specifically become focuses of your work (as those otherwise ignored objects)?In 2016/7, I noticed that file cabinets were accumulating in local thrift stores, and I spotted them …
Pantoum Christened in the Met Cloisters
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Domesticated Beasts
I was in a cheerful mood, so I went to the zoo at the edge of the city. I laughed at a comic book with the idyllic zebras. I slow-danced to Chopin with the lavish gorillas. I sang a Spanish ballad to the stylish flamingos. At the end of the visit, I took a much-needed …
José Emilio Pacheco’s Ghost and the Flying Jaguar
I was at a hidden local beach in Southern California away from the tourist traps of Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. The sun was shining but it wasn’t overwhelming; it was still early in the morning. That’s when I saw a flying jaguar in the late spring sky. It approached the sand and landed a …