Intersection #15
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death. This is the final essay of the series.
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death. This is the final essay of the series.
By Kevin Park, Channbunmorl Sou, & Mylo Lam
“8. Smash tamarind to a fine pulp (feel free to use same blunt object used to kill snake). / As your boyfriend sits there, realize you’ll probably have his children.”
By Jessica Joy Hiemstra and Paul David Esposti
“I want to land like a cormorant / when I die, be remembered / like a long black neck”
“The fountain and, / Cauldron of a life before, / and how important are the reminder, of what is broken, / you silly, silken, thing.”
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2020 Brush & Lyre …
“Our women pray with relentless / voices for rain to join tributaries. // They hold an ignition of obituaries / on their laps.”
Goatwater is a column which explores the mystifying, joyous and liberating concept of Carnival through the New York born and raised, Caribbean-American perspective of poet and artist Tiffany Osedra Miller.
By Gordon Smith
“How many years since you’ve been touched; eight? Nine?