Two Books : Longer Looks
Mixed media artist Ellen Wiener on the featured art for issue 16.
One Square Inch of Silence
I said goodbye to my father for the first and last time, after his death, in the quietest place in the United States.
Inventory • Please Give Your Fundraiser a Title—
He owns seven New Balance shoes, all rights / that have lost in this house their one-time partners.
Polaroid: Prison Visit poems
Here, lens flare recalls the burn holes in her nightgown.
The Ad Hoc Cartography of Nightmares
The problem with draining the world from your head / is what rushes in to take its place.
“Self-portrait skinning twenty-three auks” and other poems
A little rasp in its throat whittled the exhaling air. The auk laid down at last / and stayed there, its breath / so quiet I didn’t know when / it gave way to a greater quiet.
The First Otter and the Moon
I would like to tell you about my mother’s erratic heart, or share what I know of Las Patronas
in this poem my sister doesn’t die
so i keep renewing her favorite book / on our shared library card.
Art in the space of social issues
