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The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine, ed. Kaveh Akbar
The earliest attributable author in all of human literature is an ancient Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. The daughter of King Sargon, Enheduanna wrote sensual, desperate hymns to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stephanie Austin
Stephanie Austin is the author of SOMETHING IMIGHT SAY out now from WTAW Press. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than 25 literary journals in the United States and Canada. She runs...
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Paul Hlava Ceballos, banana [ ]
GenesisThe first day in the garden, God wasan immigrant who planted gulls in clouds. Even the smallestleaflet untangled solar filaments with prudencedissimilar to fire. If culture’s root is care, it...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jed Munson
Jed Munsonis the author of the essay collection Commentary on the Birds (Rescue Press, 2023), as well as the poetry chapbooks Portrait with Parkinson's(Oxeye Press, 2023), Minesweeper (New Michigan...
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Mia You, Rouse the Ruse and the Rush
The blood has turned darker and thicker, brown smeared acrosswhite cloth, as if a palette knife was taken to this womb, and here...
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Heidi Greco reviews essays in the face of uncertainties (2022) in subTerrain...
Thanks much to Heidi Greco, who reviewed my suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022), insubTerrain #94! Naturally, you can order a copy of the book from the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jade Wallace
Jade Wallace (they/them) [photo credit: Mark Laliberte] is the author of a poetry collection Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There(Guernica Editions 2023), a novel Anomia (Palimpsest Press 2024),...
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Tommy Archuleta, Susto: Poems
AFTERWORDIn the wake of my mother’s death, in that sheer-white numbness, Pop and I found among her things a homemade book on curanderismo. Its contents pair physical, mental, and spiritual ailments...
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Laura Ulewicz, Why It Is I Choose To Be Alien: Selected Poems, ed. Stephen...
Both from her and her archives which, as literary executor, I ultimately helped to acquire, I learned more of her history. She arrived in San Francisco around 1950, in her early 20s, definitely on the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kim Magowan
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection How Far I've Come (2022), published...
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Jeannine Hall Gailey, Flare Corona
My Life Is an Accidentof DNA and radiation, a million missed chancesfor death to sweep me off my feet. Too much of this, not enough of that—a witch’s spell for trouble. Red-haired and scarlet-fevered,...
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Lisa Samuels, Livestream
Ligaturethe water is eating the sun chomping it into tiny bitssea or tune or new designopen tratten rock face wet with shadow this sidesteel spray lings the curveand shaking it the boatpicks up the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jendia Gammon
Jendia Gammon is the author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels and short stories. Jendia writes compelling characters within rich world-building. Jendia conducts workshops and participates...
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Emma Wippermann, Joan of Arkansas
HERE BEGIN THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST A DEAD WOMAN JEANNEIt has pleased divine Providencethat the woman known as Jeanne should be taken...
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Jahan Khajavi, Feast of the Ass
On the Eve of Our 31st BirthdayWe were born to be served—not like a king,but Peking duck or a cake scribbled uponwith white frosting: the number 31.Jerking Off to a Turk. Short poem insugar while a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s 10 Terrific...
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Kimberly Reyes, vanishing point
I know the misappropriationof American gothic how Blackness seedsthe bayou humidityof unburied fruit, rice in the Carolinaswhite-rife with grief. I also know better—perhaps,what it is to hold a man’s...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Daniel Goodwin
Daniel Goodwin is the author of two previous novels – Sons and Fathers and The Art of Being Lewis – and the award-winning poetry collection Catullus’s Soldiers. His new novel The Great Goldbergs is...
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Brandon Shimoda, Hydra Medusa
These questions come to mind as I contemplate the intransigent, intractable void that hovers over the ruins of Japanese American incarceration. One element forming the void is the murders...
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Mary Leader, The Distaff Side
PANEL FMy mother could not sew and neithercould she knit. I think she’d have agreedwith Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot:“A woman did not look her bestknitting: the absorption, the glassy eyes,the...
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