by Guy Thorvaldsen | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
There’s something to be saidabout standing on the center lineof a bustling four-lane road,cars skimming by in front and behind meas I watch my stainless steel thermosbumble along toward the opposite curblike a rolling pin or pipe bomb.I admire its resilience—ten years...
by Melaney Poli | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
There’s a truck double-parked in the only parking spot.The guy at the counter owns a construction business, is telling the clerk all the things he’s built. “That bank in EauClaire? I built that one, too. …” After a few more buildings he leaves. I’m the only customer...
by Jill Madden Melchoir | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
First, find the reliquary:Collect the bones of the mammoth,regurgitated onto the shoreby the agitate cycle of thawing permafrost,rinse clean by the frigid lake’s lapping,swelled in a jumble of reedson the pebbled shore. Second, bioethics and cloning:Something,...
by Jackie Langetieg | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
A man on a bicycle.Does he strain into his vocal cordsbecause he is angry, wonderwhy he is riding on this trackgoing around in circlesas his life seems to veer offin jagged directions, no windingroad home. He screams.Mouth open wide, throat thrustunder his chin. He...
by Barbara Kriegsmann | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
Eva would tell her father about the proposal herself. For her mother had kielbasy to make for the Pope and could think of nothing else, the request coming as it did from the Cardinal, and his courier coming to pick up the sausage by evening. And then, thought Eva as...
by Valaria Tatera, Erica Hess, Masako Onodera, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, J Myszka Lewis, Demitra Copoulos, Jody Clowes | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
Our bodies map the fissures of this cultural moment. Fear of a deadly virus is compounded by the tangible dangers of economic uncertainty, political division, and the emboldened expression of racism, xenophobia, transphobia, and other forms of othering. As the cracks...
