Author: TTR

  • Adam Day

    Inki Fen   Thieves interrupt Neighbor meditating like a shadow pacing a warehouse floor, minutes short of enlightenment. Refuse to spare her a bit longer, decapitate her and a bull they’ve stolen – her blood-jets foundry fires ghosting the river’s mudflats. In fury she becomes Yama—indigo-skinned, scarlet-soled—takes the bull’s pronged head for her own, impaling…

  • Adam Day

    Bosatsu Basswood   Leader put himself in space; wants to start a country up there, on an island or archipelago, a peninsula, or isthmus, fjord or inlet. A negotiation of desire touched more by imbalance than grace, like the birdhouse shitting sparrow.   go to: Adam Day “Yuugen Gulf” “Padmasambhava” “Inki Fen” “Sambhava” “Viridian Akasa”…

  • Adam Day

    Padmasambhava   Worn out eyes. Bog-lights wisp. Sitting, something comes. Putting my foot down, ground rises up to meet it. No idea about this last breath. Light strikes the face. Not the moon, but awake.    go to: Adam Day “Yuugen Gulf” “Bosatsu Basswood” “Inki Fen” “Sambhava” “Viridian Akasa” “Sakya”

  • Adam Day

    Yuugen Gulf   Adultish, balconied home white walls, white people, white wine. Leader is essentially stupid, and she’s basically intelligent, unless it’s the other way around.  In the country, cities. And in cities, houses. Workers who work, bourgeois who bourgeois. No time for details in class struggle. Cats haunt a home, shifting photos; all’s quiet.…

  • Phillips to judge 2018 poetry chapbook prize

    Emilia Phillips will judge our 2018 contest. You’re gonna want to get your manuscripts in for this one, folks.

  • Matthews selects Graaf for 2017 chapbook prize

    Look here for information about 2017’s poetry chapbook contest winner.

  • Featured Artist: Meagan Cass

    “It was tambourines thrown into wind turbines. It was a runaway truck in a hail storm.” Read Meagan Cass’s short story “Borrower Pond Mermaid” here.

  • Meagan Cass

    Borrower Pond Mermaid It was my best friend Marissa who told me the trick with the borrower pond. We were in the band practice room during lunch, eating our hash browns and chicken nuggets from Styrofoam trays. I’d told her my secret in a rush, my voice a dried reed cracking. In the room next…

  • Joseph selects Davis for 2016 chapbook prize

    Click here for information about the winner & finalists.

  • Featured Artist: Blair Johnson

    Blair Johnson jacks up genre frameworks & invests in and subverts the structures of narrative and storytelling.