Category: Special Features
Visual Poetry Special Feature: “26 Sept 86...
Posted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 1, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Fiction Special Feature: “Self-Care,” ...
Posted by Bess Winter | Jul 18, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by ...
Posted by Lisa Ampleman | May 19, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Special Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery ...
Posted by Lisa Ampleman | May 16, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Special Feature: Love, Romance, and Desire
Posted by Lisa Ampleman | Feb 14, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Nonfiction Special Feature: “Open Secret” by Debra Spark
by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 15, 2025 | Special Features | 0
A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past
Read MoreVisual Poetry Special Feature: “26 Sept 86” by Brenna Womer
by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 1, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Brenna Womer’s powerful visual erasures of her mother’s letters.
Read MoreFiction Special Feature: “Self-Care,” by Brett Hymel Jr.
by Bess Winter | Jul 18, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Only an elite few stories take up residence in your memory as visceral reading experiences. Brett Hymel Jr.’s “Self-Care” is one such story.
Read More“Muddying the Gulf: On Families and Secrets” by Sadia Hassan
by Lisa Ampleman | May 19, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
Sadia Hassan reviews Steven Espada Dawson’s debut poetry collection, Late to the Search Party
Read MoreSpecial Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
by Lisa Ampleman | May 19, 2025 | Special Features | 0
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
Read MoreSpecial Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee” by Kimberly Reyes
by Lisa Ampleman | May 16, 2025 | Special Features | 0
Our latest special feature, a poem by Kimberly Reyes about natural interdependence, the physicality of intimacy, and cicadas.
Read MoreFolio: Family Secrets
by Bess Winter | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
Read More“Weaving a Ne(s)t for Our Ghosts” by Jennifer S. Cheng
by Lisa Ampleman | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
Jennifer S. Cheng on the complicated craft of writing family secrets.
Read More“Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay” by Shara Lessley
by Lisa Ampleman | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
Shara Lessley on the craft of writing about family secrets in literary nonfiction
Read More“On Family History and Fiction” by James Stewart III
by Lisa Ampleman | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
Debut novelist James Stewart III on the craft of writing fiction about family secrets
Read More“Knowledge and Responsibility: A Review of Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit” by Jessica E. Johnson
by Lisa Ampleman | May 12, 2025 | Family Secrets, Special Features | 0
Jessica E. Johnson reviews Morgan Talty’s novel Fire Exit
Read MoreSpecial Feature: Love, Romance, and Desire
by Lisa Ampleman | Feb 14, 2025 | Special Features | 0
A roundup of romantic miCRos for Valentine’s Day
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