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Suvi Booth
- Los Angeles
- August 30
In August, the names of the dead linger on the fence next to the COVID safety signs. Standing on the bridge, you gaze through torn sheets that read “Say Their Names.”
Bruce Louis Dodson
- Borlange, Sweden
- August 15
Can I afford to take the risk of stepping out into a toxic atmosphere? Is whisky worth risking my life, and the lives of those I might come in contact with? I decide it is.
Anisha Sridhar
- New Jersey
- August 3
Upon cushioned feet, they navigated the systems they had built. They moved like water through the storm.
Eric Carter
- DMV
- July 27
Sports have always been on the leading edge of forward political thought in American culture. Joe Louis was the one of the first antifa.
William Sidnam
- Paris
- August 9
It's a beautiful morning in Paris: the sun is up, the sky is blue, and everyone's a nervous wreck.
Kent Leatham
- California
- August 4
As soon as this Disease appears by its signs—/ Let the sick abstain from—open Air—/ The Disease will be the sooner over and less troublesome—
poetry
Gabriella Miotto
- California
- September 8
It penetrates your ritual afternoon nap/ and you are temporarily healed/ by this dish, with its salt
Marj Hogan
- Oregon, Portland
- September 2
You wouldn’t put your hand in the fire and ask what’s wrong? to the flame.
Athena Nassar
- Georgia
- August 6
God invites me to a weeping willow to apologize for the pandemic/ over a cup of tea.
Clay Thistleton
- Australia
- July 27
the coronasplaining of the armchair virologists/ Donald J. Trump is the King of all Ventilators/ by a hard lockdown under drone biosurveillance
recent prose
recent poetry
- Gabriella Miotto
- Poetry
- California
- September 8
It penetrates your ritual afternoon nap/ and you are temporarily healed/ by this dish, with its salt
- Marj Hogan
- Poetry
- Oregon, Portland
- September 2
You wouldn’t put your hand in the fire and ask what’s wrong? to the flame.
- Suvi Booth
- Journals
- Los Angeles
- August 30
In August, the names of the dead linger on the fence next to the COVID safety signs. Standing on the bridge, you gaze through torn sheets that read “Say Their Names.”
- Bruce Louis Dodson
- Journals
- Borlange, Sweden
- August 15
Can I afford to take the risk of stepping out into a toxic atmosphere? Is whisky worth risking my life, and the lives of those I might come in contact with? I decide it is.
- William Sidnam
- Journals
- Paris
- August 9
It's a beautiful morning in Paris: the sun is up, the sky is blue, and everyone's a nervous wreck.
- Athena Nassar
- Poetry
- Georgia
- August 6
God invites me to a weeping willow to apologize for the pandemic/ over a cup of tea.
- Kent Leatham
- Poetry
- California
- August 4
As soon as this Disease appears by its signs—/ Let the sick abstain from—open Air—/ The Disease will be the sooner over and less troublesome—
From the Archives
Some of our best writing from the earliest days of the shutdown.
Daiquiri Jones
- New Orleans
- March 24
You bought two guns/ and left for the north east./ I am calm, you said.
Zachery Quale
- New Orleans
- March 23
"What’s happening is many of these rodents are looking for an alternative food source, and they’re moving from, many times, inside the buildings to out into the streets."
Betsy Housten
- New Orleans
- March 23
This is an easy time to wish you did not work/ with your hands.
Paris Tate
- New Orleans
- March 22
Because we became lost teens of the storm, assigned/ to the refrigerator with garbage bags and bleach/ Amid power outages and school closures/ After Hurricane Katrina, we learned to shrug early/ As the city went through its own awkward stage.
Ida Dunnitt
- New Orleans
- March 16
My best friend seemed to struggle with whether or not to tell me about her post-Katrina experience in our neighborhood. She settled on, “I’m not talking about people breaking in to try to steal stuff.” At that, I took a seat. She continued, “Here, take my hittin’ stick.”
Dolores Park
- New Orleans
- March 14
We’re packing- or, they’re packing- “the apartment” while I write this, one of my lovers (and their other lover too).
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