A Literary Pesto Recipe to Kick Off Your Spring
Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.
From our Contributors
Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision
“Not everyone will walk away from a computer into the vast outdoors and find help from a hawk. But over time, these ‘focused walkaways,’ which were first unexpected distractions, have become a scheduled part of my practice, my discipline.”
Special Feature: Jim Palmarini’s “WELCOME TO THE READING”
A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.
Special Feature: Sarah Fawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House”
SarahFawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House,” her essay about doll-play and training for motherhood, from issue 20.2.
Tierney Oberhammer On Two Images that Inspired “Sunshine Skyway”
Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.
“Motion Study” by Kate Partridge
Kate Partridge on the tumblefeed, fires, and motion studies behind her poem “Meditation with Grass Fire and Tumbleweed” from Issue 20.1.
Joylyn Chai on Gardening and the Toronto Land Acknowledgment
Essayist Joylyn Chai explores how her relationship with gardening changed her relationship with the Toronto Land Acknowledgment.
G.C. Waldrep, on “The Arrythmias”
Poet GC Waldrep shares the experiences behind his poem “The Arrhythmias,” including horrible dreams, stolen peaches, and a childhood book with a bright turquoise color.
Are You Gonna Go My Way? The Inclusiveness of Second Person
What makes second-person narration so compelling? What makes it so polarizing? In this essay, Jen Michalski reflects on the magnetic pull of “you.”
Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation”
Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation” from our Issue 19.2.