prose
Hareendran Kallinkeel
- Kerala, India
- June 11
If he knew how to operate his wife’s smartphone, he could have shown them the proof: scenes unfolding everyday in the city, the state, the nation, and across the world. “It’s like a calamity; maybe the end of Kali Yuga, this era of evil. The world is coming to its doom.”
Michael Kunz
- New Orleans
- June 9
When you’re forced to choose between exposing yourself to a deadly virus and ignoring state-sanctioned murder, that’s pretty much the definition of dystopian. Anyone else tired of winning?
David Brazil
- New Orleans
- June 3
The Book of Revelation is, from beginning to end, an anti-imperial text. It is a picture of what happens when the wickedness of empire is permitted to dominate the world.
Ian Monroe
- New Orleans
- June 29
Unison exists when chaos/ proves useless./ A scattered diaspora finding solace/ in synergy.
Eric Carter
- DMV
- June 9
May we all commit to our most awesome power, the nucleus and origin of these transformations: may we promise to listen.
Heinz Insu Fenkl and Damian Parlicki
- New York & Poland
- June 9
"Look around you," he said. "Every generation thinks it is living in the end times. But for yours, it has already happened."
poetry
Kari Gunter-Seymour
- Appalachia
- July 4
I’m discussing constitutional law/ with an attorney in the pub car./ I’m not gonna lie,/ I’m having a hard time./ He’s a dweeb and I don’t/ know my amendments.
Paris Tate
- New Orleans
- June 12
The tone of my voice/ won’t allow me to start/ revolutions;/ I read a book about introverts this morning/ and shared Rosa Parks’ dilemma;/ I read the latest news about Ahmaud this afternoon,/ couldn’t breathe,/ couldn’t sleep/ for days.
Yvette J. Green
- DC
- June 10
We should be cool,/ they said. They must understand who we/ are. It is time for us to go all the way left.
Tara Menon
- Massachusetts
- June 1
Scrambled in the mornings/ sunny side up in the afternoons,/ an omelet with mushrooms at nights.
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Alecia Dantico
- Chicago
- May 20, 2020
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Jonathan Bluebird Montgomery
- Arizona
- May 8, 2020
- Kari Gunter-Seymour
- Poetry
- Appalachia
- July 4
I’m discussing constitutional law/ with an attorney in the pub car./ I’m not gonna lie,/ I’m having a hard time./ He’s a dweeb and I don’t/ know my amendments.
- Ian Monroe
- Poetry
- New Orleans
- June 29
Unison exists when chaos/ proves useless./ A scattered diaspora finding solace/ in synergy.
- Paris Tate
- Poetry
- New Orleans
- June 12
The tone of my voice/ won’t allow me to start/ revolutions;/ I read a book about introverts this morning/ and shared Rosa Parks’ dilemma;/ I read the latest news about Ahmaud this afternoon,/ couldn’t breathe,/ couldn’t sleep/ for days.
- Hareendran Kallinkeel
- Fiction
- Kerala, India
- June 11
If he knew how to operate his wife’s smartphone, he could have shown them the proof: scenes unfolding everyday in the city, the state, the nation, and across the world. “It’s like a calamity; maybe the end of Kali Yuga, this era of evil. The world is coming to its doom.”
- Yvette J. Green
- Poetry
- DC
- June 10
We should be cool,/ they said. They must understand who we/ are. It is time for us to go all the way left.
- Eric Carter
- Letters from the Future
- DMV
- June 9
May we all commit to our most awesome power, the nucleus and origin of these transformations: may we promise to listen.
- Michael Kunz
- Journals
- New Orleans
- June 9
When you’re forced to choose between exposing yourself to a deadly virus and ignoring state-sanctioned murder, that’s pretty much the definition of dystopian. Anyone else tired of winning?
- K. Arja Opprecht
- The Valour of Quinn McFoule
- New Orleans
- June 9
"I tire of these stuffy poets on my shelves!"
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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