Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]
The Person Improving Your Life
she sang, her voice now hoarse and raspy, sounding like a kitchen sink disposal
Two Poems by Madelyn Monaghan
feathered changelings in living cages
Plates in the Air
Julia Fierro plays many roles—in her works of fiction and life. She is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer (June 2017) and Cutting Teeth (2014) as well as the founder of The […]
The Forest of Us
reveling in the feel of standing at the beginning of something, before it swallows me whole
Protected: Body: Ocean
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Anna Gregor
Boundaries 40″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Nostalgia 30″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Anna Gregor is a junior at Parsons studying Fine Arts and Art & Design History.
Poetry by Basil Vaughn Soper
staring up at fluorescent lights
Finishing School
“It had to be written quickly, as these things are.”
Out on Canal
rat poison, rat traps, Ditrac, glue boards, Gentrol, bait stations, D-foam, peanut butter, and a small bottle of hand sanitizer
Diptych
The First Calvary is a miniature city in its own right, set against the steel and glass of the Manhattan skyline—gray granite and marble towers rise from bright green grass that lays at the concrete feet of The City That Never Sleeps.
Two Poems by Daniela Ochoa
chicken juice-heart
Have You Met My Friend, Bill W.?
Cast of Characters: Caine: A man in his middle 30’s. Arlo: A man in his early 30’s. Bartender: A man in his late 50’s. Scene Neighborhood bar located in Western North Carolina. Time Fall. […]
Man of the House
This is waiting at the window; this is the empty dirt road that weaves like a serpent through the verdant earth; this is the aroma of soda bread baking and the sound of the wireless […]
April 28, 2017 6 PM Barnes and Noble, Union Square Readers: Nick Flynn, Amber Sparks, Jenny Zhang Juliana Broad, Daniela Ochoa, Kaylin Dodson It’s free and so are you. Come over!
Anathema
(photo credit: Dwan Williams) To be brown is a gift, Not a fad to be worn like yesterday’s clothes To be carried to the laundromat. No, brown is warm and sweet, Cinnamon and nutmeg Or […]
Drawing Party
“Drawing Party” is Sanika Phawde’s interactive piece that explores the intersections between information and democracy. Sanika created and displayed in New York City store windows posters for an event that didn’t exist. The aim was […]
Awake.
We wait. On crimson mornings, layers of leaf loam lie So deep they are an ocean of land. A heart is imprisoned in the heart of a tree And only fire can free it. So, […]