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The Saturday Shift

David Rompf -
I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Field Notes

Nevermore

Cathy Schen -
This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Generations

Letting Go: The History of New York City

Jenny Moye -
“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

In Sickness and In Health

Twenty-Five Feet into the Sky

Richard Ely -
​I’ve been sleeping on a tiny second-floor back porch of an older east side house that is not my home. Uncovered and open to...

Reviews

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

Whitney Scharer -
On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

Nothing Person, 1970s

Bobbie Wayne -
Content warning: Descriptions of sexual harassment and sexual assault. “Take your clothes off so I can see your muscles.” He says it almost offhandedly, without...

Clothespins

Richard Ely -

Pronunciation

Phebe Kirkham -

One Good Horse

Kai Moku-Jones -

Mount Hunger

Jill Muhrer -

Fiction

The God of Luck

Jaime Gill -
1. Jason saw the island just once, when the monsoon clouds briefly released their clammy grip on the skies and its smudgy silhouette appeared on...

Editors in Chief

Angela Townsend -

Passing Through

Austin Miles -

Bar Talk

Pamela Painter -

Joy

Kate Krautkramer -

Poetry

Where Are You From?

Tran Tran -
In my mother tongue, to miss sounds the same as to remember. I dare not ask my mother, Mẹ nhớ ngoại không? To miss what was means to...

A Gutting

Navila Nahid -

Articulation

Kevin McLellan -

The Unevacuated

George Witte -

Nutrition Problems

Jill Michelle -

Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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