Hallway Song
First I wake the body / to unring a bell— / as the proctor rolls up I slam down right on the tit / of the sexy mermaid we sculpted / in the sand pit.
Glacier Wildness
In our youth, glaciers winged free to the highway.
The Countries of Sleep
Are / sleep nets / sparse / dense / or selfish / in their / weaves?
Body Party City
Endings begin with a rumbling: / clap of thunder at the top / of the finale, creak and release / of the bus as it rises from its bow, / first vibrations of the tornado / siren.
No Children
Empty basilica, wood slat / walls, white Jesus expressionless. / Blue eyes and blue eyes and blue / eyes and more inaccuracies / in the courtyard.
A Legacy of Stuff
There’s a legacy of stuff passed through my family, especially on my father’s side.
The first half of Issue 16: Proximities is here
We’re excited to introduce 15 new voices to the TSW community. Solstice has arrived, and with it, the first half of Issue 16: Proximities. And what an abundance of talent it is! Within this issue, you’ll read about one contributor’s relationship to material possessions; flit between poems about the strain of diaspora and the distance between generations; sink into one writer’s rumination on queer motherhood; and contemplate how close friendships can fall apart over time. Read the issue in full There are poems about climate change, gender, borders, and flowers; pieces about agency, selfhood, and the sort of grief that rips right through your inner scaffolding. Our contributors tackle topics…
Introducing The Seventh Wave’s new website
The Seventh Wave’s brand new home was seven years in the making. We are thrilled to launch our new website, which is very much a homecoming for The Seventh Wave. As a digital community of now 250+ artists, writers, and activists from around the world, this website was a long time coming, and was built to function as a digital hub and platform for our community of writers, readers, and deep-thinkers; a place of exchange, art, and rest. Regardless of how long you’ve been with us, we want to walk you through our new site, and talk about some of the exciting things we’ve built for our past, current, and…
TSW staff picks: what we’re reading, watching, and listening to right now
We asked our TSW staff about the stories they’re currently experiencing or revisiting. READS Yellowface by R.F. Kuang | from Sanna Wani, TSW artist-in-residence“Yellowface was just a mindfuck. A novel written by its villain, this book felt like living in the eye of the storm and watching the violence from a third-party perspective. It is knowing the thing and then looking through someone else’s eyes at it: and the thing is the entrenched racism and white supremacy of the publishing world. A lot of interesting commentary too on stories and who writes them and why. A repulsive story that you can’t look away from; a car crash where you’re strapped into…
Introducing our 2023 Rhinebeck residents
Saba Keramati, Jennifer Tan, Jody Chan, and Nita Noveno In July 2023, we will be welcoming four writers to our annual two-week writing residency in Rhinebeck, New York: Saba Keramati, Jennifer Tan, Jody Chan, and Nita Noveno. We had the chance to work with each previously, as they are all past contributors to our annual literary publication — ranging from our second issue back in 2016 to Issue 16, which publishes this month — and now, we’ll have the opportunity to co-work alongside them at The Crystal Cottage. Located on 27 acres of disappearing paths in the towering greens and blues of upstate New York, our two-week Rhinebeck Residency is…
Art in the space of social issues
