Special FeaturerbdJuly 06, 2018Matthue Roth, poetry, special feature

Matthue Roth: A Beach Is No Place for Loners

Special FeaturerbdJuly 06, 2018Matthue Roth, poetry, special feature

Subway Birds

a beach is no place for loners
everything is carnivorous mussels
ripped from shells by savage white birds
impossibly smooth skin you could curl
ashamed the size of a grain of sand

the ocean is where we thrive 60%
water a few more drops in the lungs won’t change much
virginia woolf walked calmly nothing
else was calm to be becalmed
is to be abandoned by even the sea finally

in the homeward station birds peck
their way onto trains no suspicion
once you’re in their bellies no expectation
to be taken somewhere new
upheaval gifted with manhattan
dreams of every schoolchild and no hatchling

Matthue Roth earned his master’s degree in creative writing from Brooklyn College. He’s a creative writer at Google, where he makes games for children. Previously, he was a screenwriter at Sesame Street, and he’s collaborated on thirty video games with the creators of Minecraft, League of Legends, and Thomas Was Alone.

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Special FeaturerbdMarch 22, 2018Catie Hannigan, poetry, special feature

Catie Hannigan: Endlessly into Nowhere

Catie Hannigan is a poet and visual artist from Maine. Her first chapbook, What Once Was There Is The Most Beautiful Thing, was published by DIAGRAM / New Michigan Press in 2015. Her second chapbook, Water Fragments, is a poetic essay on water and islands, and is forthcoming from Tammy Journal in 2017. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. More work can be found at www.catiehannigan.com.

Special FeaturerbdMarch 22, 2018Catie Hannigan, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdMarch 23, 2018Travis Sharp, poetry, special feature

Travis Sharp: No Body Is a Scapegoat

Travis Sharp is a queer writer, artist, and teacher living in Buffalo. He's an editor and designer at Essay Press and at Small Po[r]tions, the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, forthcoming), and a PhD student in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. Other work has appeared with Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, Bombay Gin, Puerto del Sol, Entropy, and elsewhere.

Special FeaturerbdMarch 23, 2018Travis Sharp, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Milo Gallagher: A Centaur Dreams

Milo Gallagher's poems have appeared or will soon appear in The Kenyon Review, The Grief Diaries, Crab Fat Magazine, Potluck Magazine, Anomaly, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate at Mills College. You can follow him on twitter @miloemilyg.

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdMay 24, 2018bunkong tuon, poetry, special feature

Bunkong Tuon: What Is Not Fluid

Bunkong Tuon is the author of Gruel (2015) and And So I Was Blessed (2017), both poetry collections published by NYQ Books, and a regular contributor to Cultural Weekly. He is also an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.

Special FeaturerbdMay 24, 2018bunkong tuon, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdJune 18, 2018Laurence Li, poetry, special feature

Laurence Li: What Is Coming Now, What Beast

Laurence Li is a recent graduate from Yale and now lives in Beijing. His senior year, he completed a poetry portfolio, "The Nixon Scenes" with Louise Glück. His work has appeared in the Yale Daily News Magazine and the Yale Literary Magazine's online section.

Special FeaturerbdJune 18, 2018Laurence Li, poetry, special feature