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Adam Day

4OctoberTTRFeatured ArtistAdam Day, Padmasambhava

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

4OctoberTTRFeatured ArtistAdam Day, Yuugen Gulf

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.

Featured Artist: Meagan Cass

21JanuaryTTRFeatured ArtistMeagan 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

21JanuaryTTRFeatured ArtistBorrower Pond Mermaid, 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

Featured Artist: Blair Johnson

18MarchTTRFeatured Artist

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

Blair Johnson

18MarchTTRFeatured Artist

Artist’s Statement I can’t make statements about what I make that will be true for everything, or will be true tomorrow. Sometimes I write poems backwards. I see their shape before I know anything else. Then I try to write under the cloud of this shape, trying to fill it with a narrative that perfectly