recent writing

  • In an Unexpected Emergency, I Find Myself

    In an Unexpected Emergency, I Find Myself

    In the lovely, centerpiece poem from his latest collection, Birth Center in Corporate Woods, BJ Soloy reminds us—with couplets that are manic, comic, and deftly enjambed—that “We’ll find a way though this like an inmate / finding a way // to hang himself.” This is a poem for our moment, whether we like it or not.

  • Nemo

    Nemo

    “You must understand what I cannot make you understand,” Raymond McDaniel writes about Micronauts, the 1970s action figures: “I used these toys in the same way I used reading itself: to be the other that was actually the self.” This essay’s observations—on humanity, selfhood, autonomy, and vision—are a delight to behold.

  • The Dreams and Damnation of Bishop Koyle

    The Dreams and Damnation of Bishop Koyle

    “The figure then looked Koyle in the eye and said, ‘Brother Koyle, do you believe that even a man’s lust for gold can be consecrated for the work of the Lord?’” Revelation sets a man on a path that will transform geography and transcend reality in this excerpt from Jeremy Grimshaw’s novel-in-progress.

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