How I Learned to Translate Shadows

How I Learned to Translate Shadows by Joshua Zeitler after Shivani Mehta   I was born with a book for a body. I think there’s been a mistake, my mother said, refusing to hold me despite the appealing firmness of my spine. I was a clothbound hardcover, the...

The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis

The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis by Natalie Eleanor Patterson The Landscape Persists Hannah drives me to Salem for the first timein ten months exactly. Last time I was on this highway I had someone else’s hand in mine& my own spit limning my hair...

Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her recent work appears in Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, RHINO, The Penn Review, and PRISM International, among others. She is a poetry...

So You’re Fluent

So You’re Fluent by Lauren Mallett They ask meThey ask me to prove itThey ask me where I learnedThey ask me but not at home In this house hereBuilt by sea, hand, ropeI dreamed up myself in two languagesMy houseWhere there stops by no inspectorNo money to be...