Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAugust 04, 2017Stacey Gruver, special feature, poetry

Stacey Gruver: Erosion is Self Care

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAugust 04, 2017Stacey Gruver, special feature, poetry

Erosion is Self Care

to reject starvation

cultivate hollowness, make room

for your hunger, summon a river and

let your current eat its way through

bedrock, let your current carve a cavern

to shelter the beginnings of your appetite--

your sightless birds, eyeless deer,

serpents transparent with need

be a good shepherd and your flocks

will multiply, will spread, will feed you

Stacey Gruver is a poet and artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Maryland Individual Artists Award. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Eye to the Telescope, and The Puritan.

Joanna Valente

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 17, 2017Noah Burton, special feature, poetry

Noah Burton: Turning Trees into Guns Is Easy

Noah Burton's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paperbag, The Puritan, Outlook Springs, Cruel Garters, among others. He is a recipient of the 2015 Dick Shea Memorial Prize in Poetry judged by Tanya Larkin. Noah lives in New Hampshire where he works at a burrito shop, adjuncts at local colleges, and plays in the occasional band/perpetual solo project, House of 1000 Sports Cars. www.noahburton.com

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 17, 2017Noah Burton, special feature, poetry

Noah Burton: Turning Trees into Guns Is Easy

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteApril 19, 2017special feature, poetry, ashley miranda

Ashley Miranda: In a Porcelain Cup, I’ve Put Your Ejaculate and Read Our Future

Ashley Miranda is a latinx poet from Chicago. Her work will be or has been previously featured by the Denver Quarterly, CCM Press, Ghost City Review, Lockjaw Magazine, and Glass Poetry Press. She tweets impulsive poetry and other musings @dustwhispers.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteApril 19, 2017special feature, poetry, ashley miranda

Ashley Miranda: In a Porcelain Cup, I’ve Put Your Ejaculate and Read Our Future

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJune 05, 2018Stacey Tran, poetry, special feature

Stacey Tran: I Can Shatter the Cosmos

Stacey Tran is a writer from Portland, OR. She is the creator of Tender Table, a storytelling series about food, family, identity. Her writing can be found in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and diaCRITICS. She is the author of Soap for the Dogs (Gramma, 2018).

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJune 05, 2018Stacey Tran, poetry, special feature

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJuly 23, 2018Dominik Parisien, poetry, special feature

Dominik Parisien: Survival Is Sinking

Dominik Parisien's work can be found in places such as The Fiddlehead, Uncanny Magazine, Plenitude, Strange Horizons, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award, as well as other anthologies. His latest project is Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJuly 23, 2018Dominik Parisien, poetry, special feature

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature

Kristen Bulger: Triptych of the Body

Kristen Bulger is a poet from New Hampshire and currently lives in Boston, MA. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in Salamander, Superstition Review, Houseguest, and elsewhere.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature