by Renée Lepreau a filmography Plein Soleil (1960)Not yet attached, I find Delon’s youth detexturizes his face a shade too far into pretty-boy. Not even the beach umbrellas are sad when he ends the movie by walking out of the frame, unaware and smiling, towards the police. La Piscine (1969) Giggles behind us throughout an…
Category: Poetry
FOLEY ARTIST CAPTURING WHATEVER YOU WANT
by Chris Crowder It is the sound of two plastic action figures clacking. It is the sound of an actor ripping a fake cigarette out their mouth. It is the sound the diaphragm vibrates among a deep hacking cough. It is the sound of it is the sound. It is the sound paper sounds like.…
Reflections on The Exterminating Angel
by Danilo Marin Since the fumigators came, I can’t sleep. I’d grown used to scratching in the walls,imagined the mice in hordes, toppling overeach other for a chance to excavate.Evil had a definite face—that comforted me.Now I wait for a new pest to inhabit my thoughts.If this intermission is mourning, who is it for?*Surviving dinner…
from Aquarius
by Sophia Terazawa for my teachers, Susan Briante, Farid Matuk,and Brandon Shimoda, who brought me to the line [i]Years will quiet all memory: the water jar behind a courtyard, fabric andNovember through December having been driven to terrible heartbreak, we, who can blame no one, would pack seven years of notesIf those are—rose quartz—a dead…
This Place is the Place
by Jim Whiteside —Amy Love Beasley; a dance for eight performers; recorded at the 2015 North Carolina Dance FestivalA few notes from a piano, some stringed instrument,eight people crossing the stage to the left, then right,heads down, arms back in a V-shape, as wings. The backdrop lit in bright blue—birds crossing some river, bank to…
I watched Andrew Barth Feldman & Cooper Hoffman & Maude Apatow & Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann get drunk
by Sasha Debevec-McKenney after Khadijah Queen’s I’M SO FINE: A LIST OF FAMOUS MEN AND WHAT I HAD ON I watched Andrew Barth Feldman & Cooper Hoffman & Maude Apatow & Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann get drunk at the wrap party for the movie my boyfriend worked on & I was wearing my 3.5…
Palestine made me Muslim again
by Atia Sattar but it’s less a returnmore a re-calling because when I was bornthe Azaan was whispered in my earand still echoes within because I tuned out Muslim at eighteento the boom of hijacked airplanescolliding with steel, untrainedin mindful listening, untrained in self-love because “I was raised Muslim”wasn’t cutting it everlike I could just…
seethe
Lesley Younge The rage shows up as four glasses of wine a night,a brief and disastrous affair, fifty unshakeable pounds,or a fender bender while texting furiously, injury heaped upon the insult of living life within a cage of our own making.Big girls don’t cry (except on the toilet) and they don’t say ‘fuck this’ while…
i don’t know how to be poz
AJ Romriell so i’ll consider the socket on the wall instead,the socket & the fork in my hand, consider jabbing the metal inside—my head—his head—can i call it a mercy killing if everyone else makes it out alive? he made himself a ghosta week after he killed me, after he’d sworn he’d break me in…
I am Trying to Paint my Daughter
Lindsay Adkins with watercolors.Nurse Dawn asks if I paintand no, I do not but you have designated 2 pm as arts and crafts time, Dawn,so yes, I am saying yesand I am trying to paintmy daughter from memory, since you do not allow phones up hereand I can’t look at the picture of her I…