Crucifixion Psalm / Drinking Songs
By Poetry Issue 126
I drink in the morning & it is beautiful
Read MoreHuracán / Dreampsalm
By Poetry Issue 126
Mass livid w/ purple, pale yellow, bruise swelling over the
Outer Banks & the Carolinas, do Tígers swim in the deep
foaming blues off the bight?
The Mezinka Dance
By Poetry Issue 126
The ghosts of our dead can only watch as we dance.
Read MoreSuffering Weather
By Editorial Issue 126
A rip is a wound—and also a place where brightness filters in. But the potential for light doesn’t mean the tearing doesn’t hurt.
Read MoreWhat We Carry, What We Owe: A Conversation with Emily Bernard
By Interview Issue 126
I think about how my grandmother greeted death. She was ready. What a blessing.
Read MoreHebrew Numerology
By Poetry Issue 126
Say you could only count to six.
Say seven didn’t exist—no Sabbath, no holy
rest, no end to week.
Read MoreWhere Even Shadows Hum
By Culture Issue 126
Sill pieced together from sources as diverse as Gene Autry and Jung’s closet gnosticism. Reviving her music is our nekyia too—a way to listen to the cultural shadows that emerged in the seventies and still haunt us.
Read MoreThe End of Cicero
By Poetry Issue 126
He is sixty-four this year,
near the sea, where we
find him, serious, scrounging
“For the Egyptians tell us Hephaestos…”
By Poetry Issue 126
Invention loves desire
but desire brings home war.
Unquenchable Fire: The Road as a Graphic Novel
By Culture Issue 126
Manu Larcenet. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Harry N. Abrams, 2024. A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature that occurs at…
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