Let's fight the fash.

"sea gooseberry," "winter solstice memory," and "sunset"

by Karl Kempton

page one of sea gooseberry, a visual poem

"Grounding a Beef" and "Standing Wet in the Random"

by Vernon Frazer

Thirteen Photographs, October 2025

by Pat Jolly

One Night on Live at Five

by David E. Matthews

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"Spells for the Wicked" virtual book release party

with Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, Tara Campbell, and Marc Vincenz

Paintings and Images, May 2025

by Jamie Chiarello

'The Center Cannot Hold', Oil on panel, 8" x 10", 2025

'What the Shoreline Was', Oil on Yupo paper, 5" x 7", 2024

"Anne Sexton, October 4, 1974," "Village Church," and "Hesitation Before the Journey Begins"

by Ma Yongbo

You can imagine a pastor who is neither young nor old,
his appearance is similar to a schoolteacher, simple yet sly,
he knows everyone here, even those not yet born,
he feels a certain weariness from knowing them too well and from having nowhere else to go.

"Interview with a Creature That's Been Found Ravaging the Alphabet," "History Always Happening, Even As It Happens" and "Short Interpolation of an Atom of History"

by John Bradley

Someone you once knew and who no longer speaks to you
is sleeping on your front stoop. Tiny particles of his body

blow off in the wind and tiny particles of his body constantly
blow back. He seems in no hurry to leave, no hurry to stay.

The Crypto Venture at 13 Third Street

by Eric Sentell

Dizzied and calmed, Justin resized the browser window and opened a new one, arranging them side-by-side. He began shopping for Stingray Corvettes with one eye while monitoring the pump.fun dashboard with the other.

"We have always been here" and "Terms not accepted"

by Sam Harty

Don’t wave your sanitized rainbow at me.
I am a child of the ’80s.
I remember our brothers
dying in hospital beds alone,
partners kept out in waiting rooms
like strangers,

"Two-Lane Blacktop" and "The Day's Coming Fast"

by Arnold Johnston

Though each year's spring may be the last for us,
We take our comfort driving side by side,
And opt to greet each season without fuss
As we have done for decades, groom and bride.

Borgia (The Agony) & The Borgias (Worse Agony)

by A Sardine on Vacation

Borgia showed every perversity of the Pope and his brood. There was brother-sister incest. The Pope himself had the grossest sexual desire (unrequited) for Lucrezia.

Slaughterhouse 3

by dan raphael

“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.” So begins Slaughter House Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death.

Like Kasia

by Benjamin Redwood

Being able to spot lie after lie after lie: it’s continual, endless, like being used and craved as someone else’s drug. Every other sentence is now an insult, and the friendship has turned to ash.

A Crow for Brunch

by Aster Olsen

The first warning is when she responds with questions in response to statements. The first time it had happened, I’d answered them patiently, even though her tone was strange—frankly it was rude and detached, with the trappings of analytics covering a core of malice.

"We Often Hear What Most Maligns Us," "We Must Be Careful," and "X = Hare Revisited"

by George Kalamaras

That this desire, this guilt-sway of your hips, was put in its proper place among the centuries, the galaxies, among all those who have ever died. Strikingly alive.