Latest Writing
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FEBRUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW with CLAIRE HOPPLE
From the first sentence of Claire Hopple’s latest novel, Take It Personally, you know you’re in for a ride—in this specific case, you’re sidecar to Tori, who has just been hired by a mysterious and unnamed entity to trail a famous diarist. Famous locally, at least. What sort of locality produces a “famous diarist”? One…
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JANUARY MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH MARIA ZOCCOLA
Any reader with even a cursory understanding of Greek mythology will recognize her name: Helen of Troy—daughter of Zeus, the most beautiful woman in the world, a “face that launched a thousand [war]ships.” Now take that image and fast forward about, oh, 3200 years, and you get Maria Zoccola’s raised fist of a debut, Helen…
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DECEMBER MONTHLY: INTERVIEW WITH JIMIN SEO
Jimin Seo is the author of OSSIA, his debut collection of poetry. Winner of the The Changes Press Book prize, judged by Louise Glück, OSSIA blends the voices of the dead with the living, resulting in a symphonic exploration into migration, dislocation, familial bonds, love, and loss. Seo textures his manuscript with poems in both…
POETRY
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SORROW by Megan Pinto
Everything lost is returned again in sorrow.Love lays to rest in a dark glen of sorrow. Handsome men study their faces in glasstemples I built, saying amen to sorrow. My fingertips turn violet under cold water.I read this as omen when I am in sorrow. Tiger moth, peacock & devil’s butterfly stunned behind plastic by children…
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I AM THE GRASS OF THE WIND ALLEY by Sarah Riggs
From The Heart Weighs In, a Revolt I am the grass of the wind alley, the tepid stream of bird song, the glint of reasonable doubt, the threat of the last hour, the smile of the still falcon the quandary of mourned daylit webs. I am sun auburn-flecked shells I am childhood and old age,…
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SELF-PORTRAIT AS IT SINKS IN by Kenton K. Yee
“65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence” – 2018 NIH article The throat aches, a cushion pinned by years of acute flounder bones. Remember, we’re all as accidental as nectar palms living off light the golden tuba woofs down during its daily glide across the blue cotton field of gulls and contrails.…
FICTION
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FALL FOR IT by Claire Hopple
After they escort us out, we are told to wait here. The here being a square of sidewalk. If you could see the two of us on this sidewalk square. Trying to maintain appearances. It’s a delicate operation. A heavy quiet. Some convenience store employees switch off who gets to peer out the window at…
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GIFTS by Samantha Neugebauer
Marie and Ms. Simpkin’s unexpected meeting on the park’s northwest corner got their lunch off to a bad start. Neither felt quite ready to commit themselves to conversation, yet what else could they do? They would need to proceed around the gated park and down Irving Place together as if the ten minutes of solitude…
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NEVER ENOUGH by Dustin M. Hoffman
April worked Hector’s hair into pigtail braids. “I fucking love you,” she said and then hated herself for sounding cheesy as bullshit TV, like burnt sugar on her tongue. She’d unplug every TV, yank a million miles of cable wires, just so she could be the only one saying stupid things. She finished the second…
TRANSLATION
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ECOPOETRY FROM JAPAN with Ryoichi Wago and Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION by Judy Halebsky THREE POEMS by Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi FOUR POEMS by Ryoichi Wago, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi
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INTRODUCTION TO KORA RUMIKO & WAGO RYOICHI by Judy Halebsky
FIVE POEMSby Ryoichi Wago, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi THREE POEMSby Rumiko Kora, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi This folio shares recent translations from two Japanese poets, Kora Rumiko (1932-2021) and Wago Ryoichi (1968-). Kora’s poems are from the second half and 20th century, and Wago’s were written following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami,…
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FOUR POEMS by Ryoichi Wago, trans. Judy Halebsky & Ayako Takahashi
Screening Time November 26th, 2011 —exiting the restricted area, a 20 km radius of the power station screening palms screening the back of my hands screening with my hands up screening with my hands down screening over my head screening …
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