Online Issue #3: The Personal is Political
I think it's cute when people make a special move to inform themselves about politics. When being informed about the state of the country...
Wordstalker #3: Jess Walter Will Make You Fall in Love in Four Easy Steps, by Tabitha Blankenbiller
There’s a new kid on the MFA faculty schedule. Jess Walter arrives during your junior semester, somewhere between receiving accolades for...
ενέργεια* by Eleanor Levine
*Means “Energia” or “energy” in Greek. muscles cut from Michelangelo’s David and Plato’s retreat in a symposium of Greek boys and Oxford...
Boundless, by Kristin Gulotta
Please proceed, Governor. --Barack Obama Gentlemen, come on and spread the wealth. Pass those bills and then we’ll pass around our...
Senator, Senator, by Molly Patterson
It was a scandal and he was guilty, and it would follow the Washington script—the leak, the investigation, the camera flashes. “Deny...
Eat them, I don’t know: John Mayer’s Guide to Foraging, by Courtney Maum
Forced to take a year off from singing and on a strict Paleo diet to keep acid reflux from aggravating the granulomas that threaten his...
An English teacher critiques the 9/11 report, by Kirstin Ruth Bratt
This essay has a lot going for it: clear and cogent details, story arc convinces, prevails over lost fragments, arguing well enough. Now...
haiku republicans, by Steven Rugel
loveth thy neighbor but not as much as yourself! christ was no commie politics deals with which man gets what, how and why (and who gets...
Hotbox, by AK Small
Inside a lemon-yellow room, I twist, bend, and chaturanga in search of inner peace. And, not alone. With me, thirty yogis on colorful...