My fifteen-year old son, adopted from Chile, pedals his bike back from the pool, says some boys just called him a Spic, and my brain explodes— Ping, ping, says my brain. Wait! says Louey. I get in the car, gun the gas pedal, stomp past two teenage lifeguards at the gate, on my way to […]
Issue 94
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno: 30th Street Station
Sweet old man in a tweed cap soft shoes, soft brown skin, says, Do you need a cab? Yes I say and my heart is laughing; this is how I get sometimes. You look like my second grade teacher Mrs. Richmond, I always loved Mrs. Richmond, he says. He ushers me to a silver Lexus. […]
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who is pursuing his MFA at Warren Wilson College. Winner of the 2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and the 2015 Makeda Bilqis Literary Award, his work has appeared in RATTLE, Beloit Poetry Journal, Timeout New York, Muzzle, The Acentos Review, We Will Be Shelter: Poems for […]
Leah Falk
Leah Falk was raised in Pittsburgh and lives in Philadelphia. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Blackbird, FIELD, The Awl, and elsewhere. Also a librettist, she most recently collaborated on the song cycle Book of Questions with composer Joshua Morris. She runs programming for the Writers House at Rutgers […]
Linwood Rumney
Linwood Rumney is the author of Abandoned Earth, winner of the 17th Annual Gival Press Poetry Award. Poems, translations, and essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Cincinnati, where he recently completed a PhD as a Taft […]
Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton has authored numerous poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most recently, with Denise Duhamel, Caprice: Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her awards include the Iowa Poetry Prize, Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and an NEA Fellowship. Her work has […]