by Steven Espada Dawson | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
On September 3, 1809, Meriwether Lewis set out for Washington, D.C. Lewis carried his journals with him for delivery to his publisher. He had written his will before attempting suicide on this journey. He was restrained. Lewis and Clark chewed on mercuryfor its...
by Marnie Bullock Dresser | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
I’ve been thinking about things that skip a stepbecause now in late winter the snow does its subliming,jumpstarts to vapor, says to the streams “not today.” I thought fog was clouds coming down but this,this is clouds disambiguating from the snow to riselike a gesture...
by Kelly R. Samuels | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
We would talk of what was definedas tangible, rap the table witha knuckle, stroke the cashmere. Sipthe tea. Fathers were not mentioned.Nor how my mother would call meby her sister’s name, suddenly,sometimes. He said he thoughthis sense of smell was lessening,and how...
by Adam Fell | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
A lone green tree standing in ademolished frontier // The sleeping animal huff of ourown pried-open country // Time will not exonerate us// We are half-lit / godwit / complicit // We sighourselves into ever more fashionable...
by Susanna Daniel | Apr 15, 2024 | Magazine Article
For about a month now, my best friend Amanda has been exchanging one hundred texts a day with a man she met at a dinner party. It’s suddenly fall, and after I take my youngest to school, if work isn’t too heavy, I walk the dog with my headphones in my ears, talking to...
