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Sonnet 34

Amore e Mona Lagia e Guido ed io Possiam be ringraziare un Ser costui Che n’ha partiti, sapete da cui? Nol vo’ contrar per averlo in oblio. Poi questi tre più non v’hanno disìo; Ch’eran serventi di tal guisa in … Read More

by Guido Cavalcanti on May 11, 2006March 17, 2013

The Male Gaze

As I sat in the darkness of the Black Box theater, the words of Maude, Julianne Moore’s character in The Big Lebowski, echoed through my head. I did not know what to expect from these mysterious Vagina Monologues. As a man, I was prepared to be confronted, prepared to be unwelcome

by Malcolm Steinberg on March 1, 2014July 21, 2017

Two Poems

BOX You’d handed me the thing because I’d asked to read your letters, made in Romania— not that you’d been there yourself, but from an aunt, you spoke, half-crazy. And because it was a puzzle, you said: Open it. You … Read More

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on February 8, 2006March 17, 2013

The Road to Confidence Goes through Cancun

I’d seen the shows and the movies. I’d been there three times before. I’d even written a play that took place there. But nothing really prepared me for my trip to Cancun this Spring Break.

by Justin Gerald on April 7, 2004March 17, 2013

Abandoning the Authentic

Coming to terms with the newest craze in contemporary dance.

by William Keiser on March 6, 2016

Looking At a Childhood Afternoon, As From a Moving Car

Looking back, I can recount— although perhaps, at times, incompletely, and often, I admit, sensationally—— a brief episode between my four-year-old self and a close childhood friend: a young girl named Mary, similarly diminished in age and stature, a miniature co-star, with whom I shared an afternoon that I will always remember.

by Michael Sard on February 14, 2008March 17, 2013

Bicentennial Brother

David demarcated his territory on the waiting room chairs with assorted belongings: here a pencil, here a pair of sunglasses, here a pillow in a blue terrycloth sleeve…

by Rob Buerki on December 1, 2004March 17, 2013

The Adventuring

The dragon now is yawning With the sun’s new dawning And greedily is fawning O’er the gold of fallen fighters of yore. Meanwhile D & D dice are rolling To represent fearsome fighting While from a cloud with silver lining … Read More

by Zeb Blackwell on December 13, 2006March 17, 2013

Transient Stupor

A photo essay as a chronicle of decay.

by Emma Mohrmann on April 25, 2021April 24, 2021

Pills

Those pills, those—what were they?—those pills we ate are going crazy. My limbs are, like, exploding off me. I feel great. You look very pretty now. I mean, I feel great! How do you, how do you feel? Not going … Read More

by Josh Hirshfeld on May 11, 2006March 17, 2013

I had a cough all my life. It stood by my side.

Near dusk, we owe an appropriate fear to the light that may not show on the hilly back of the morning beast. Mother takes our picture at sunset. Her finger pushing and begging that button to hold everything still, appeases … Read More

by Tamara Spitzer-Hobeika on May 1, 2008March 17, 2013

Ding dong… hello?

“Go back to work, you miscreant.”

by Juju Lane on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022


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