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Why We Like It: “Book of Distances” by Brandon Amico
Caitlin Doyle: Russian playwright Anton Chekhov famously advised writers that a gun introduced in the first act should always go off in the second. Poet Brandon Amico aims his gun in the opposite...
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Why We Like It: “Stolen from the Cries of Ravens and the Red Smell of the...
Anonymous crawled down a muddy slot in the earth to put red handprints on the cave wall, Anonymous who painted the Crab Nebula onto a rock ledge and translated the winter wind into black ink on vellum,...
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Why We Like It: “Make No Bones about It” by Cindy Beebe
Rochelle Hurt: In music, riffing usually refers to a method of composition in which a single element (like a series of notes in a specific order) is repeated, sometimes changing slightly with each new...
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Why We Like It: Joshua Coben’s “Antechamber”
Antechamber – Joshua Coben* The father is a dark door the son may lean against to listen for the locked room of himself, his next life. Later he will listen there for the echo of his own death....
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Why We Like It: “The Brief Second Life of Winston Whithers’s Wife” by Leslie...
Eric Van Hoose: Ghost stories tend to hinge on the question of the ghost’s existence. Either the figment is real or it isn’t, and story’s purpose is to find the answer. But from the first moments of...
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Why We Like It: “Acheron” by Donika Ross Kelly
Molly Reid: Lately, I’ve been interested in the way I—and perhaps other non-poets—read poetry. How might a fiction writer look at a poem differently than a poet? What do I seek in a good story, and how...
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Why We Like It: “And We’ll See You Tomorrow Night”
Julialicia Case: I’m not much of a baseball person, or even a sports person, so when I came across Dave Mondy’s essay “And We’ll See You Tomorrow Night,” I did not expect to be swept away. After all,...
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Why We Like It: “Fourteen Shakes the Baby” by Susann Cokal
Chris Collins: Susann Cokal seized me with her first sentence: “The first one is not so bad, hurts, grinding on the sticky floor with the others watching.” And what proceeds is the story of a character...
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Gaming Poetics: Hexagon, Hexagon Again
James Ellenberger: The Settlers of Catan is a resource-management game that requires each player to stake out territory on a lovely, numbered hexagonal landscape. As the game progresses, the players...
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Why We Like It: Andrea Cohen’s “Tip”
James Ellenberger: Short poems are like potato chips: I often really enjoy the work, but am left wanting more. The best short poems seem to be able to circumvent the desire for more by engaging or...
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