Special Feature: “Sitting Inside the Poem” by Richard Hague
Cincinnati writer Richard Hague on a local landmark and its connections to his experiences reading a poem closely and personally.
Special Features
Special Feature: “long live the queen” by Tramaine Suubi
A poem that traverses nearly two millennia of African queens, in stanzas that overlap seamlessly
The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle
Dorothy Chan on books by Faylita Hicks and Michael Chang that use sex in poetry to challenge norms.
“Breakwater”: On the Craft of Sex in Poetry
Poet Keetje Kuipers on the art of writing about self-pleasure.
Writing Sex
Jonathan Alexander on the craft of writing sex in nonfiction, looking at books by Zachary Zane and Tina Horn.
Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours
Gwen E. Kirby on Miranda July’s latest novel and its radical act of depicting a sexual middle-aged woman.
On the Literary Merits of Funny Sex
Edgar Gomez on crafting funny sex scenes in fiction and nonfiction.
Folio: Writing about Sex
In this folio to accompany issue 21.2, five writers explore the craft of writing about sex.
Special Feature: “Empathy in Three Movements” by Vedran Husić
A poignant and profound essay about the capacity for love and the devastation of grief.
“A Magical, Marvelous, or Fantastic Chronicle of Death Not Yet Told” by John T. Howard
An extensive (maCRo?) essay on magical realism in Latin American literature, family history, Colombia, and the magical in the everyday.