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Middle of Nowhere, Zen New Jersey

It’s all alphabet soup
in 12-pt font,
bitter black bleeding into vegetable stock —
A poem or two or three, falling into one another like bodies in orbit

by Nell Marcus on March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

What I Heard about Gaza

After Eliot Weinberg’s “What I Heard About Iraq”

by Narges Anzali on October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

On Alienation

A late-evening lecture, meta-glasses, and an increasing distance from everything

by Ollie Braden on October 13, 2025October 13, 2025

Counter Cultures

Some lesser-known identities of a counter, however you define it, recognizing the dangers of slipping into the full absurdist guerrilla art territory of #notmakingsense.

by Wendy Wang on April 10, 2025

Homecoming 1970

Coming to America, your dad found God and mine found Bruce Springsteen.

by Ivy Chen on April 19, 2025

At the Nexus of Almost

Running out the clock on a life before 20.

by Charlie Milberg on May 25, 2025June 1, 2025

Partly Cloudy

A Nass writer confronts a riddle of imagining and searches for its solution.

by Vivian Clayton on April 19, 2025

the life and loves of a hopelessly unromantic artist

“i bit your fingertip. you tasted like cigarettes and irish whiskey and sweat—discordant, utterly unamerican, addictive.”

by Marvel Jem Roth on October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

The bar where the beach boys used to play

L.A., from someone who got out.

by Sasha Rotko on April 10, 2025April 11, 2025

Nass Recommends: Officeparks

This review started as an obligation. It was the least I could do, really, to thank my friend and congratulate them on their poetic debut. Then, when I finally opened my personal copy of the book, sent to my home … Read More

by Sofiia Shapovalova on September 27, 2025September 27, 2025

I Only Want to Go Camping with People Who Hate Camping

The difficulty of being Into things when your mother is, too.

by Mia Mann-Shafir on September 27, 2025

Bad Men, Suffering Women, and The Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain

“The more we view certain expressions of gendered being as untrue, the more we reinforce in ourselves and others that there is a ‘true’ way to be a woman or a man, trapping ourselves in the same conservative discourse we claim to abhor.”

by Narges Anzali on December 15, 2025


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