Tell Me I’m an Artist – Chelsea Martin
Martin clearly understands one of the most painful truths about living a creative life.
How to See Ghosts and Other Figments – Orrin Grey
The phantasm is more in how we see ourselves, or more specifically in how we mistake ourselves.
Reader, work is not work, and ceci n’est pas une oeuf.
Death by Landscape – Elvia Wilk
Scene after scene, whether in stories or theory, of death by landscape, make clear the pervasive crisis that climate has become on Earth.
One can always start afresh after having died several times . . . like re-routing whenever one is lost while using Google Maps.
Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus – Signe Gjessing
Gjessing, in many ways, flips Wittgenstein’s directive on its head, writing poetry as one might write philosophy.
Through this text, Civil has recorded time, unraveled memory, and reckoned to create a document that is both of its time and of past/future time.
Neither Weak Nor Obtuse – Jake Goldsmith
No one escapes, no one is physically invulnerable, we are all prisoners of a cruel chronicity.
The Seaplane on Final Approach – Rebecca Rukeyser
Mountains and bears and ice floes are hardly cheap lipstick and pleather jackets, but to a hormone-addled teenager, anything and everything looks like sex.
Prophetess – Baharan Baniahmadi
Slowly, she begins to sense the presence of all the world’s women in her own body, women who have been wronged by men or society in general. These voices fill her, erasing her own.