Welcome to the new issue!
We hope you enjoy the new issue now and over the next months as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together. Watch this space in the next weeks, as some of our writers talk about the genesis of their pieces.
Girls Girls Girls
Elkie trusts Don absolutely. He’s a cross between a boyfriend and a father, though Elkie knows boyfriends and fathers aren’t supposed to be the same thing, and he’s not at all like a regular client. But then one Sunday … Read More
The View from the Necropolis
The officials have asked us to redo the museum: walking through the ruins of the Greek settlement, they poke at the stones with their feet, render instructions to me without looking up. I stand at a remove from them, … Read More
Geographies: Cold Storage by Keith Althaus (Off the Grid Press, 2016); Spill by Kelle Groom (Anhinga Press, 2017)
In their new books, Cold Storage and Spill, poets Keith Althaus and Kelle Groom, who both happen to hail from Cape Cod, are not isolated by its geographies—instead, each holds a dialogue with and pushes out from them. There … Read More
Here as I Am: The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by David Ferry (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
“Reasonably close.” Twelve years in the making, and this is how National Book Award-winning poet David Ferry rates his translation, out this September, of Virgil’s Aeneid. The Aeneid—that 10,000-line, 2,000-year-old epic poem in twelve books singing imperial Rome’s mythic … Read More
The Good Old Boys Learn a Thing or Two about Digging and in the Meanwhile Aristotle Calls Some Bullshit “Aether” or Maybe “Quintessence”
The boys follow the moon still hanging early morning and don’t even acknowledge it. Seems sometimes the crows will shake up the cornstalks and John’s not stuffed with straw. The boys follow the crick out past where the paupers … Read More
Our School Colors
Logan, you took your glass eye out for me. It wasn’t the taking out that I needed to see, but the pink folds beneath. We … Read More
Your Great Busyness
I am unable to lead a life based on illusion. –Eleanor Roosevelt Blue eyes, lustrous hair and unfortunate chin. Many hats, many papers. Your alcoholic father took … Read More
All-purpose Spell for Banishment
A pox on _______ and the gerrymander he rode in on. Expel, export, exile him while we waft sage-smoke around. At this zero hour, as our wombs contract under the moon, cast him out, groper / loomer / cheater … Read More
The Argonauts in Oia
tr. from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen the beautiful journey–Konstandinos Kavafis For some the end of the earth is likely the end of the world. For others the end of the world is the starting point for the journey. Hand … Read More
The Quotidian Life of the Soul
tr. from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino Wrapped in meters of linen in an urn of carved wood (inside a stone sarcophagus inside a sealed tomb) this mummy doesn’t make it easy on … Read More