From Our Contributors: Louise Ling Edwards on Learning Mandarin
Paintings and an essay from contributor Louise Ling Edwards on the Mandarin language and poetry
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Accepting Entries to the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!
Announcing our 2025 summer contest!
Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery discusses the use of point of view and choices about genre in her latest book, Abbreviate.
On Our Copyediting Practices
Our process for copyediting pieces accepted for the magazine.
From Our Contributors: Erika Gallion Velasquez Shares a Playlist to Accompany “Paradise is Ours”
Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner Erika Gallion Velasquez shares a playlist to accompany her prize-winning essay.
Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
Special Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee” by Kimberly Reyes
Our latest special feature, a poem by Kimberly Reyes about natural interdependence, the physicality of intimacy, and cicadas.
Folio: Family Secrets
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
Video: “Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us—a correspondence,” by Jaye Kranz
Jaye Kranz shares this haunting excerpt of her poem, that takes us on journeys through email exchanges and ASCII landscapes that feel both déjà vu-like and oddly tranquil.
Notes from the (Re)Design Studio: Introducing Our New Look
We recently reached a milestone: I handed our web design prototypes over to our developer.