Criticism

The Saving Verge: Woolf, Cézanne, and Things

And thus I always resolve now to gaze more closely, more observantly, to stand before inconspicuous things with more patience, with more prolonged attention, as if they were dramas or spectacles, and not pass them by... more »

Short Short

illuminated destruction

…this couch is not the kind you’d want to fall asleep on. it looks like a giant band-aid, curing something self-inflincted. max and i know, without knowing, each other.  he is a bruise; a few shades darker than me and... more »

Nonfiction

Four Pieces of Nonfiction

Gary Wayne had a Big Wheel and Down’s syndrome, though our technical term for his condition was “retarded.” I was five. My brother was eight. Gary Wayne was somewhere in between. Matthew and I believed in hell but didn’t think we’d ever go... more »

Longer Poetry

How to Find Wildlife in the West

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Vintage Fringe

Tell Me If You're Lying

Sarah Sweeney learns about her father's alien abduction in this Vintage Fringe nonfiction piece from Issue 11, which also appeared in Dzanc Press' Best of the Web 2008 anthology. more »

Poetry

Three poems

"The Travelling," “Sasquatch," and "Nose Box” more »

(de)Classified

A Sail

Thor never got used to those Norwegian winters. Months of half-light and soft bark. But his fire smoldered on, year after year, until one fresh June day brought a breakthrough in Thor’s plans to float away from the steely fjords… more »

Short Short

Terry & Tawny & Lucinda

Tawny is a girl and a girl is a flower. A girl is a rhythm. A girl is a train riding tracks. more »

Nonfiction

Anti-Social Networking

“Oh man I can’t believe you actually sent it!” Dan shouts, in horror and glee. I lean back in my crumbling wheelie chair and smile wryly. Well, what’s done is done, I guess. “That’ll by twenty-five dollars,” I say, extending my... more »

Features

Eliot Khalil Wilson: Poetry Sings Like That

Eliot Khalil Wilson talks about poetry as a moral act, shopping for images while traveling, and why he’d be happy to be sung to by a frog. more »

Fiction

When Somebody Needs Hypnotized

Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature has done something to Steinbeck. He has become bored with writing, as if there are no new heights he can reach. In the world of hypnotism, he is considered a hack. more »

Nonfiction

Index for R: An Examination of the Text as it Pertains to the Divorce and Subsequent Romance between Characters XX and XY

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Featured Artwork

7 Pieces by Martin Langford