with a huge congratulations, and a holiday deal! Congratulations to Laura Glen Louis for her essay “Man Crossing an Ice Field” from Volume 65, issue 2 (Summer 2024), which has been chosen for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2025! And, to last year’s contributors who were recognized for their “Notable Essays . . .
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What I mean is, there are waysback in when your brain has checked you out:singing badly, for example. Making uglinessa god of sorts. Knowing yourself as a person thatcan be unwillingly . . .
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In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a five-day poetry retreat hosted at MASS MoCA: The expansive five-day writing retreat culminates in a poetry reading in North Adams, Massachusetts. Through daily prompts, exercises, readings, and . . .
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Last Wednesday, December 10th, we hosted a Zoom launch party for our new Winter Special Issue, Incarceration & Family. Commentary from Britt Rusert, Caits Meissner, Nicole Shawan Junior, Lindsay Reckson, Emily Nonko, Lola Carino, Janice Sapigao, and Diane Herring. Readings from Patty Prewitt, Justin Rovillos Monson, Kwaneta Harris, Rickey Cummings, Teddrick Batiste, . . .
Read MoreIn case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a virtual Fine Arts Work Center workshop of your choice: The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, is justly known for helping new and experienced writers take their work . . .
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At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday November 25th, my husband Peter gets an alert that ICE is attempting a house raid nearby. We jump in the car. Several blocks from the address, we encounter Saint Paul police, flashers on, barring all roads. Saint Paul officially has a separation ordinance that prohibits police from . . .
Read MoreIn case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! Every day, we’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail. Today’s spotlight is on our editors: Nathan McClain (Poetry): up to 15 pages, for 3 hours total McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, . . .
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PUBLICATIONS: Alison Charette (63.3)’s translation of Raharimanana’s Return is newly out from University of Chicago Press. Roger Greenwald (57.4) published An Opening in the Vertical World with Black Widow Press in 2024. His more recent publication, Keener Sounds: A Suite (also Black Widow), is a book-length sonnet sequence with paintings by Arielle . . .
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As the holidays are drawing nigh,And our dinners are richer: piled highWith the vegetables, meats,Cheese, and savory treats,And our bellies are full—then we spy Someone bringing a tray of desserts(One more bite and some tummies might hurt).Well, you know without questionBeer helps with digestion.So try some of these to insert 1.In your . . .
Read MoreLeila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico! We are beyond proud to have published these works this past year, and wish the best to our nominees in the future. Congratulations, and thank you all—your brilliant work makes our own that much brighter!! From . . .
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