Stories
Poem of the Week
Take my hand, lead me by heart over the blind stepping-stones to the edge.
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Protect your hands. You can always get by if your hands aren’t broken.
Poem of the Week
I give you a real blue song the mountains hold under their foot.
Nonfiction
It was an act that made me feel safer but also somehow more imperiled.
Story of the Week
I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.
Poetry
I shouldn’t have to say why the confederate flag is a symbol of hate.
Poem of the Week
What if Eve was an Indian & Adam was never kneaded from the earth.
Poem of the Week
Instead, I touch: The powdered organ. The thief-shaped hole.
Poem of the Week
Children can be seen as worldly things, not as souls with broken mirrors.
Poem of the Week
I walk into their tight pants, into their curves of sculpted flesh.
Fiction
On the small of my daughter’s back is a two-inch tattoo. MADE IN CHINA.
Poem of the Week
A cuckoo calls the hours like an old clock, only not the hours we mean.
Story of the Week
Silence, a weapon of choice, hung between them, cut through the air.
Poem of the Week
They’re not, and it’s not, and we’re not, and only a god can save us.
Poetry
What if white men became supremely good at making up for our past?
Poem of the Week
Now only the single syllable that is the beloved, that is the world.
Poem of the Week
If you are water my left hand is a horse thief my right hand is alder smoke.
Nonfiction
No author dodged readers who were indifferent to masterpieces.
Story of the Week
The excursion brought shape to that entire scruff-covered summer.
Poem of the Week
Come live with me. We could plant acorns in each other’s mouths.
Story of the Week
They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.
Fiction
Oh, how did people do it? How did they find some way to be happy?
Poem of the Week
You said cilím-xayqin, the very whites of my eyes you pluck out.
Story of the Week
My father then got partials implanted, which were later punched out.
