A Review of Don Mee Choi’s Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation

Joyelle McSweeney

01.20.15

Freely Frayed takes a look at how the work of Korean poets such as Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon grapple with the US’s manipulation of their home country as a military toy. Joyelle McSweeney reviews.

Gew-Gaws

Brian Allen Carr

01.19.15

Art from a thrift store versus art in the MOMA: Brian Allen Carr ponders three curious paintings that came into his life via malt liquor.

Iowa

Stephanie Goehring

01.16.15

“Summer I’m afraid enough to kill.”: A new short poem from Stephanie Goehring, selected by Spring poetry editor, Louise Mathias.

Sexting with Tom Brady

Mark Baumer

01.15.15

As Tom Brady prepares for the AFC championship, he sexts.

from Compress

Drew Kalbach

01.14.15

An excerpt from Drew Kalbach’s latest project, a text built off of compression models of all your favorite websites.

A Skeletal Low: Juliet Escoria Interviews Sarah Gerard

Juliet Escoria

01.13.15

Juliet Escoria picks Sarah Gerard’s brain about her debut novel, Binary Star, writing in a trailer, and the best book of the year.

Lost Scripts and Misbehavior

Nicholas Grider

01.12.15

Impromptu communication can be complicated for the autistic, and even more so when trying to get involved in something as formal as converting to Judaism.

Brine

Patrick Culliton

01.09.15

“I once shampooed a pelican with dawn”: a new short poem by Patrick Culliton, selected by Spring poetry editor, Louise Mathias.

A Review of Sade Murphy’s Dream Machine

Vi Khi Nao

01.08.15

Can orgasms backfire? Sade Murphy investigates sublime sexual territory and where it borders against the dream. Vi Khi Nao reviews.

CORNEA.

Shane Jesse Christmass

01.07.15

“Light on a petrified substance. Nowhere. Nothing yet you cling to this nothing. You don’t exist. Nostrils opening. A particular liquid injected. Locusts. Lobsters. They wheel you in. A diagnosis, a substance induced state.”