The High Desert Sessions
Time rather than education is the great leveler, Li. Eventually you’ll come around to my way of thinking, everyone will. You are definitely on the wrong side of history,… More
Midnight at the Manatee
Thirty-nine inches from tip to tip, / it must have weighed, I bet, almost forty pounds. / You teased me as we passed another angler, offering / to… More
LP’s and Girlz
Oh, SHE was All Too Real my friendz and beloved readerz because I tell you she literally bumped elbows with me as we both hunted for those heavenly 12-inch… More
The PEN Ten with Richard Nash
I'd beg the imprisoned writer to try to remember her teenaged self. The intensity, the outrage, the sentiment, the naïveté, the resentment, the joy. More
Three Poems by Ryan Collins
The choice to / Vegetablize yourself is a choice only you can / Make, New American. After this conversation / Everything I tell you will be off book, black… More
Goodnight Nobody
He leaned back into his driver’s seat, closed his eyes, and waited to feel something for the dead man. If it was a pretty girl inside the dumpster, he… More
Millennial
Though it somehow felt unlikely that money would continue to operate in this way for the rest of my life, it was actually probably the most likely thing to… More
The PEN Ten with Mark Binelli
I did just have the opportunity to spend some time with a couple of the members of Pussy Riot, and the message they seemed to want to send to… More
from The Waters
Black hail falls on your daughter’s wedding. / Every day the next day is the biggest exam of your life. / When you say “coffee” all people hear is… More
Last Night in San Pedro de Macorís
There’s only one ride left to the capital. One bar of soap left, one towel. That’s how fiction comes to life, you unlucky fucker. Why tell the truth? More