Poetry: “Troublesome Phenomena about the Room” by Andrew S. Chen

It starts with the changing of a light bulb. Continues with the putting of jackets on hangers, the closing of a closet door. The Teflon flakes off in the pan, saturates the day with carcinogens. Scrub it, rinse it, dump it down the drain. Cultivate that blackened bottom taste. How well the household chores agree […]

Spring 2010 Issue

Our Spring issue is on the way from the printers and can be downloaded by clicking here: Download Spring 2010 Issue. We hope you enjoy this latest collection. Pick up your copy on campus, or around Hyde Park!

Poetry Reading: “Cash for Clunkers” by Philip Fried

As a preview of our upcoming Spring Issue, we are happy to share with you a recording of one of the featured poems: “Cash for Clunkers” by Philip Fried. Please press the link below to hear our Fiction Editor, Levi Foster, read this poem (Note that the recording is somewhat quiet, so you may have […]

Poetry: “sudden prayer for the squirrel on the powerline” by B.J. Best

sizzling acrobat, you try the wire from pine to pine. potential flashforward, your claws cut like scimitars across the line yet you know nothing of capacitors, of relays and dynamos, or how we use dinosaurs’ bones to make our debauched suns glow. but you know about flux and resistance: the lean of a limb, the […]

Technical Issues (Resolved!)

Our submissions email account is momentarily down. We’ve got tech support working on it, but anything sent in the past 24 hours didn’t make its way to us. We’ll update this post when the account is working again. Thanks for your patience! **Sorry for the delay on the update, but everything is up and running […]

Poetry: “Ablutions,” by Josiah Bancroft

I come to the mirror, a smug, run animal, extracting my eyes, teeth, rub the dent of rings into the sink. I put a comb to my head because I’m flirting again, and catching blown kisses in my beard.

Fiction: “The Dead Men in the Bushes” by Lisa Burdige

There are dead men in the bushes, she thinks, right by where I walk the dog. Dead rich men killed by goblin boys. Thin, wiry boys, strung out on greed and miscellaneous wanga. Breath burned by that crazy smoke. Lips, cracked and dry, marked with tender pipe sores. Smelling a sweet, plumy scent like a […]

Book Review: Umberto Eco’s “The Infinity of Lists”

Review by Levi Foster Rizzoli Hardcover, 408 Pages November 2009 Umberto Eco is terrifyingly erudite, as anyone who has read his novels will attest: the extravagant wealth of information in his novels, on medieval scholarship, or the Kabbalah, or any of a dozen other subjects, is staggering. And anyone who has read, for example, the […]

The Winter 2010 Issue is Here!

Our Winter issue is available for download here and will be coming from the printer shortly. Pick up a copy anywhere on campus or around Hyde Park. Enjoy!

Fiction: “May the Road Rise Up to Meet You”

I sent my guinea pigs ahead of me with the friend of a friend. He was going to Portland and came to pick them up on Friday afternoon in a corroded green station wagon that was missing a fender. There was barely enough room in the trunk, on account of the mountains of old books, […]