Writing is an act of resistance
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Brigade
By Alia Hussain Vancrown fireflies talk to each other with light in some firefly species only one sex lights up (but let’s not make that everything) in most species both sexes glow fireflies produce cold light two chemicals are in a firefly’s tail: luciferase and luciferin and here the story begins the…
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To the Twenty-Five Percent of You
By Mark Williams Consider the time my dad and I took classes at the Exum climbing school in the Tetons, and one of our classmates was Carol Lawrence. Maria of West Side Story Carol Lawrence. Nicest woman you’d ever want to meet, Carol, and who wouldn’t want to meet her, with that voice and pleasant smile…
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No Drone
By Willa Carroll Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus, one of Entropy magazine’s Best Poetry Books of 2018 and a SPD Bestseller. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize and Narrative magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, The Rumpus, Tin House, and elsewhere. Video readings…
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How to Not Be “Racist”
By Tara Campbell Neighbors, These are difficult times for True Patriots. With election season coming up, the lamestream media is going to start sniffing around our peaceful Neighborhood, asking for our opinions on things. You never know when an Enemy of the State is going to stick a microphone in your face, waiting for…
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How to Eat a Soldier
By Matt Pasca Lobsters mate for life—on menus they are called lobster. And all’s fair in fowl: duck called duck, chicken chicken—the winged as unrenamed as the sea. But cow & pig & deer, stars of the big screen as Elsie & Babe & Bambi— we unmammal their meat with abstraction: Beef. Pork. Venison.…
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I’m With Exxon Mobile
By Carl Dimitri Carl Dimitri, a Providence, Rhode Island-based artist, is committed to drawing one cartoon a day until the Trump era is over. Carl has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He was also elected in 2012 into The Drawing Center in…
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Hope and Furies
By Shana Ross When vengeance descends in a collective noun with feathers: do we expect a murmuration or a murder? Shana Ross is a writer, mother, muse, sometime wallflower, middle-aged ambivert with a BA and MBA from Yale. Since resuming her writing career in 2018, she has accumulated over 20 publication credits. She…
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A Moment of Silence
By Rebecca Lee The bus station smells like stale cigarettes and something milky mixed with a sour aftertaste. Babies and homeless people. They are completely opposite from each another. One has lived too much and the other, not enough. Together, they sit in the row of blue plastic seats in front of and behind…
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Crime Scene
Nancy A. Kiel, immigration rights, incarcerated children, U.S. concentration camps, Image, Mark BlickleyBy Mark Blickley and Nancy A. Kiel Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His latest book is the text-based art collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, Dream Streams. Nancy A. Kiel lives in Sydney, Australia, where she’s an award-winning musician, songwriter, writer, and founding member…