[Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…”
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
INTERVIEW: Ellen van Neerven, Author of Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The collection invites readers to better understand and imagine queer and First Nations experiences in Australia, where Ellen van Neervan lives.
CRAFT: On Writing Trauma in Creative Nonfiction by Travis Harman
I mined my brain, every crevice, searching for parts of me that only I knew.
Sex Boxers by Ben Decter
It’s been two years since my wife and I have had sex.
Radishes by Amber Burke
One winter….I coat checked at a French bistro in Chelsea where there were radishes in bowls on the zinc bartop.
Eggs by Shannon Purdy Jones
Her clay brown body would have blended in with the tile if not for black and gold eyes….
This Side of Silence by AV Bruce
David has AIDS, the letter says. He went into hospital last week with pneumonia.
When We Used To Glow by Tom McAllister
When we say there used to be more lightning bugs, I’m afraid we’re really talking about how our parents used to be alive.
It Is Particularly Requested by Katherine Rawson
It is particularly requested that no flowers be sent.
