Issue 84: 04 April 2019

what i imagine

By Kate McLaughlin   were it that easy, that words alone could save us. sometimes i let myself imagine grammatical rebels and daily syllables of resistance with bold punctuated uprisings. if words alone could save us, i’d write all night. in my grammar book, recruitment would be what hanging prepositions exist for. hangin’ at all […]

The Wall that Trump Built

A dystopian cumulative tale by Robbie Gamble   This is the wall that Trump built. This is the base that supported the wall that Trump built. This is the anger that stirred up the base that supported the wall that Trump built. These are the migrants, the “rapists and thugs,” such a shadowy danger disturbing […]

The man who killed me got out of prison this week

By Marissa Glover I do not dream of winning the Heisman Trophy, of going pro after a standout junior year, of one day being inducted in the NFL Hall of Fame. I do not dream of breaking records or wearing rings or signing contracts with Nike and Gatorade. I do not dream of retiring to […]

Translated from the Portuguese

By Mark Blickley   Artist’s note: This past fall, I co-curated an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal, Tributaries, that opened on Sept. 30th and ran for ten weeks, under the auspices of the international artist’s cooperative, Urban Dialogues. While in Lisbon, I went into the oldest continuous bookstore in the world, Chiado Bertrand Bookstore, which was founded in 1732 (the […]