OCT 2022 / ISSUE 19

INTERVIEW WITH JOY HARJO

Interviewed by Leigh Hopkins

We were colonized by language, too. Language is built with all sorts of expectations and shapes, so in a way, it reshapes your mind. For me, poetry goes back to that liminal space…

FERAL AND BRINE

by Debbie Weingarten

The fall that my marriage was disintegrating, I craved food that tasted feral, so I made pickles with the glut of cucumbers. All summer, I had eaten too many lemon cucumbers, whole…

TERRITORY

by Sarah Ronald

My TERRITORY series is inspired by the visual language of nighttime trail camera footage. These drawings explore subversive themes, particularly around human preferences when it comes to...

Don’t Mess with Us

by Lindsay Quintanilla

“Someone is stealing La Toyota!” I yelled, and hit their door with my fist. I knew better than to call the cops. The last time we called the cops was when someone broke into our house...

BLIND

by Shin Yu Pai

in Arkansas, once, I listened to a man describe waiting for deer inside a hideout with a pre-teen girl, the offspring that he’d trained to shoot, and kill, inside the evergreen, stained hut on stilts…

TICKER

by Amra Brooks

There are tiny ridges around its middle that help my fingers hold it in their grip. I wanted to lick it when I saw it glistening up at me, like hard candy or a precious gem. I often want to put clear…