Year: 2025

Backwards on Tree Streetfor Sonic Boom (Peter Kemper) 32nd notes in the background and 16th in the foregroundin the bassist’s octaves & rhythmic fifths set the stage: a tablecloth unfolding, stretching like a...

[su_pullquote align="right"]West 55th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, October, 2025[/su_pullquote] GREG FUCHS teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He writes poems and makes photographs. Fuchs survives beneath the...

JIM BEHRLE is the host of Showy McShowface on WFMU Sundays at 3 AM.

By Ron Kolm The Jersey Slide Danny Shot CavanKerry Press   Danny Shot kicks off his amazing new book of poems, The Jersey Slide, by obliquely mentioning the East Village...

By Cedar Goto   Uncoiling: A Japanese-American Family’s History Yoko OK   “What even is true history?” comic artist Yoko OK asks while looking at the family writings that informed...

  Willie, My Father, and Me I never asked much of my father, and he never asked much of me. I never asked him how his jobs were going or...

Invictus An air conditioning unit fell from a tall building and landed on my mother and now her corpse is following me. Which is so my mom. I’ve only been...

Poem   Do not die I said to the train. It was sad. It didn’t want to be a person; it wanted to be a bird. All birds being dead ...

Interview by Jason Dubow, essays editor Questions: Willie, My Father, and Me Boog City: Now that you are a man of a certain age, i.e. a lot of time has...

By Ryan Masters Two rivers converge in River Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025. The human and the holy flow together, coalesce into spooky, spiritually ambiguous currents, carry the reader past dark...