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  • Devon Balwit

    Devon Balwit teaches in Portland, OR. She has six chapbooks and three collections out or forthcoming, among them: We are Procession, Seismograph, Risk Being/Complicated (a collaboration with Canadian artist Lorette C. Luzajic); Where You Were Going Never Was; and Motes at Play in the Halls of Light. Her individual poems can be found in The…

  • REMBRANDT BEHIND WINDOWS

    Damien had always hated coming into his parents’ bedroom—hollering good night from the doorway as she lay in a purple nightie, Pops spread-eagle in briefs like anybody wanted to see his hairy ass self. But Pops hadn’t stepped foot in his room for, what, a month? He put on a good show, faking like he hadn’t been…

  • COCKATOO TEARS

    “Mom. We have to save the rainforests.” These were the seven words with which my seven-year-old greeted me as she climbed into the minivan in the Pittsburgh Zoo parking lot. I swiveled around in the driver’s seat, trying to get a good look at her face. Her piercing blue eyes stared solemnly back at me…

  • Daniella Levy

    Daniella Levy is the author of By Light of Hidden Candles (Kasva Press, 2017) and Letters to Josep (Guiding Light Press, 2016). Born in the USA, she immigrated to Israel with her family as a child and currently lives at the edge of the Judaean Desert with her husband and three sons. Her short fiction,…

  • NEIGHBORLY

    No more borrowed sugar— you want the mixer, the red costly one that churns my granules, your yolks, my flour into upside-down pineapple envy. You want the oven that heats your hunger to a blister, and an extra Band-aid for your heel hoofing it up our long driveway. You want the refrigerator turning its cold…

  • Marjorie Maddox

  • HEMINGWAY’S DAUGHTER

    “We got some tragic news. My niece, Raquel, took her own life yesterday morning. She had not been suffering depression that anyone knew of. She did have a headache the past week and said she didn’t feel like herself and just didn’t feel good. My sister, had stayed overnight at their house Sunday night because…

  • HEMINGWAY’S DAUGHTER

    “We got some tragic news. My niece, Raquel, took her own life yesterday morning. She had not been suffering depression that anyone knew of. She did have a headache the past week and said she didn’t feel like herself and just didn’t feel good. My sister, had stayed overnight at their house Sunday night because…

  • Stephanie Dickinson

    Stephanie Dickinson, an Iowa native, lives in New York City. Her novel Half Girl and novella Lust Series are published by Spuyten Duyvil, as is her feminist noir Love Highway. Her other books include Port Authority Orchids, Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, The Emily Fables, and Flashlight Girls Run. Her work has been reprinted…