“There are numerous culturally accredited conduits for time travel: phone booth, tanning bed, sleeping bag, hot tub, and so on. I found my way by way of a chance encounter with a discarded pile of Artforums.” —“Back Issues” by Jessica Almereyda. Art by Wolf Paw. evergreenreview.com/read/back-is...

“You are twenty-six years old. The day before you are admitted into Akeso, a psychiatric clinic in Milnerton, Cape Town, you see the sky blinking and depositing stars across the horizon.” —“Death Is for the Living” by @rofhiwamaneta.bsky.social. Art by Lynd Ward. evergreenreview.com/read/death-i...

“Everything about the mother-daughter relationship, particularly during the teenage years, is claustrophobic. Mother-daughter conflicts take place in tight, contained spaces: cars, kitchens, dressing rooms.” Up now: “Blood Bonds” by Hannah Engler Harvey. Art by Margo Hoff.

“I am not a synesthete, yet I often perceive Tippit’s paintings through multiple senses. It’s a strange feeling but true to my experience in encountering open forms . . .” —“The Rose Is Obsolete,” an essay on artist Alice Tippit by @simpsome.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-ros...

“There were paintings on the huge ceiling, of men and women in robes, shepherds and sheep, men holding sticks with a curve at the top, and clouds and fires and skies. The men looked angry.” —“The Children Everywhere, Asleep” by Paul Cody. Art by Shanna Zentner. evergreenreview.com/read/the-chi...

Oh shit I have a reading tomorrow! For National Poetry Month. With bunch of cool people! On account of how I am secretly a poet. Here is the flier! You should come! I will be being as Whitmanaical as possible... DEETS AT singaporeunbound.org/event-list/2...

“you pictured yourself crossing the river linking agadaz to reality as your eyes play the tape of fishermen netting dead bodies out of the river. . .” Up now: “agadaz: the river/ the dead bodies” and two more poems by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Art by Lauren Drescher. evergreenreview.com/read/medusa-...

“Stan went inside, the sharp night air giving way to the fug of sweat and cigarette smoke, and spotted his four bandmates at the far end of the room, packing up their gear under two giant, hand-painted signs . . .” —“Neighbor” by James Rickman. Art by Laura Bruce. evergreenreview.com/read/neighbor/

“A decade had passed since you’d returned to Dublin. I walked past the hardware store, still in business, a miracle, standing on what had once been our corner. I sent you a phone pic. Seconds later, you replied.” —“Valentine’s Day” by @joyamina.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/valenti...

“In the aftermath of 2024’s bitterly divisive presidential election, the people of New Jersey looked to the skies for answers. What they saw made national news: drones the size of SUVs.” —“It Came From West Virginia” by Ann Lewinson. Art by @onwasow.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/it-came...

"the book speaks not just to gay male experience but to how queer life renews a curiosity about the constructed nature of the self generally." Eric Dean Wilson on Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist @evergreenreview.bsky.social

Fantastic review-essay of THE SAUCERIAN in the @evergreenreview.bsky.social : "So was Barker a trickster? A folklorist of the space age? Had Barker, in the Men in Black, created what Mckee calls “a metanarrative monster . . . from which he could not escape”?" evergreenreview.com/read/it-came...

“I came late to the works of Robert Glück, looking for good gay sex. Who writes it well? I could pretend I was merely horny, but in truth I needed guidance . . . . ” —“The Sex We Need: On Reading Robert Glück in 2026” by Eric Dean Wilson. Art by Dean Sameshima. evergreenreview.com/read/the-sex...

ICYMI: our editor-in-chief @dalepeck.bsky.social has a nonfiction/memoir piece up in the new issue of @yalereview.bsky.social! 🐶💔 yalereview.org/article/dale...

“On the inauguration days of John Kennedy and Zohran Mamdani, January brought clear and cold; in 1961, Robert Frost was the poet invited, who at eighty-six had trouble reading the paper he held. . .” Up now: “Inaugurations in the life” by @sgardinier.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/inaugur...

“A cartographer measures the course of a river snaking its way downstream. The border between my land and yours is harder, more distinct on paper than seen on the earth...” —“Poem for All the Times You Wanted a Straight Answer” by Shou Jie Eng. Art by Matt Lipps. evergreenreview.com/read/poem-fo...

“This is the revolution—not a bang, but a tendril. A fracture in the planned city, a tiny, persistent mouth saying no to the cement-gray certainty of everything. . . . ” —“Ode to a Cracked Pavement” and two more poems by Aisha Khalid. Art by Ben Kendall. evergreenreview.com/read/night-s...

“For hundreds of years the central symbol of the Masonic fraternity has been a capital letter ‘G’ circumscribed by an overlapping square and compass. . .The meaning of the letter ‘G’ is open to interpretation.” —“One Nation Under G.” by @robertguffey.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/one-nat...

“Besides, it works. Whatever rustic burrs It sands to flatness, whatever bends or blue notes It smooths to croony harmony, it works. It works. It simplifies the subtle problem . . .” —“Cure-All, End-All” and more poems by Stephen Kampa. Art by Mickey Aloisio. evergreenreview.com/read/cure-al...

This 1959 picture of my mom is from her Harlem modeling days. As a kid I used to see this photo on mom's dresser and it became one of my visual aids when writing the short "Frankie Five Hundred" for @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/frankie...

“My honey is blood and my meat is bone. The wilderness is in me. I wander through its hedges, over the sloping hills through the meandering rivers . . . .” Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...

“The sun was up, and it was hot, especially in this black suit I had on. A soft, hesitant breeze blew from the direction of the other clusters of funerals, it being a Saturday in KwaMashu.” —“Solo,” a novel-in-progress excerpt by Mandla Langa. Art by Betty Blayton. evergreenreview.com/read/solo/

“Whole, each wedge snug in the thick, gleaming skin, every segment buttressed and bounded by kin. Held close, cheek to cheek, then peeled and torn? Touch-grown, together-fed— of course they mourn.” —“Orange” and more poems by Angie Hexum. Art by Ashley James. evergreenreview.com/read/orange-...

“Big George and George look for birds to tell them where the fishing is good and then the other fisherman look to Big George and George.” Up now: “I’m with the Fish” by Daniel Goulden. Art by @peteredlund.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/im-with...

“The construction work came to an end. From the outside, it was clear that two distinct times had come together. The smooth plastered walls of the old house blending with the clean lines of the new structure.” —“Embers” by Cynthia Abdallah. Art by Cindy Rehm. evergreenreview.com/read/embers/

“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ” Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...

“i At close range, the sugar cubes are freckled. ii When they move, they take very short steps. iii They wear small white shoes.” New at Evergreen: “Sugar cubes” and two more poems by Per Olvmyr. Art by Carolyn Case. evergreenreview.com/read/sugar-c...

“On the day your city burns, you do not wake up with soot in your chest, neither do you wake up to the sick smell of burning flesh. You wake up to the sound of your best friend singing.” —“We are still here” by Olákìtán T. Aládéṣuyì. Art by William S. Schwartz. evergreenreview.com/read/we-are-...

“* to wait for peace in times of force to cut oneself a treaty * unreliable your tales are tall the mental lift a pilot . . .” New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...

“ ‘Fielding’s Hollow’ is an intense, paranoiac live-action role-playing experience for sixteen players, set in a fictional mining town in 1890s New England. You can only play it once in your life.” Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...

you // must have been sleeping so deeply to dream a river this wide

“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .” —“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...

“In 2001, I found three large books of photographic proof sheets in a dumpster in Washington D.C. The pictures contained in these volumes document the inaugurations of presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan.” —A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/

A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!

“As a natural man himself, a son of the blues, he undoubtedly needed a natural woman in his life in addition to my mother.” New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...

“There was a winter she slept here. There was a snow that silenced even her loud dreams with its quiet gathering.” Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...

“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox. It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed. I was stunned and shocked.” —“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/

“Beyond these things—bricklayer, WORK—I knew absolutely nothing about what my dad did. And that was fine with me. But it wasn’t fine with him.” —“Heaven Knows” by Ed Pavlić, one of the “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in “The Best American Essays 2025”! evergreenreview.com/read/heaven-...

"Dori (Who Walked Barefoot Over the Mountain" (@evergreenreview.bsky.social), one of my best published stories, is set on New Year's Eve day and features my dad-in-law Gregg Campbell's beautiful color film photography of Mount St. Helens after the '80 explosion evergreenreview.com/read/dori-wh...

“Send me a pic of your hot arms. How would you describe a person’s arms. Seems dumb, everyone has them. Why would you blow up your life for a pair of arms.” Up now: “Ghazal w your arms” and two more poems by Marisa Crawford. Art by @gabriellegarland.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/robbie-...

“The Darién Gap has played host to all manner of other adventures beyond the established conquest, plunder, and canal pursuits of centuries past.” —Up now: an excerpt from “The Darién Gap” (Rutgers University Press) by Belén Fernández. Art by Susan Hamburger. evergreenreview.com/read/silent-...

“The sun rises with blood streaks on its eye rims as mornings are dense with wings of dust emanating from early morning chores of young women . . .” Up now: “Rail-track Radio Station” by Mbizio Chirasha. Art by @jessicadunne.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/rail-tr...

“Looking at William Hogarth today, his revolutionary vision leaps over the centuries to accuse the many bullies in power. I entered his work to follow in his path.” Up now: “The Four Stages of Cruelty (after Hogarth)”—art and words by @suecoe.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-fou...

“Brother Morpheme had succeeded in keeping his emotions out of his work for the 150,982 assignments he’d handled prior to Ms. Mvungi.” Up now: “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” by @koimolove.bsky.social, translated by @jaybossrubin.bsky.social. Art by Valerie Hammond. evergreenreview.com/read/the-wit...

“The first thing João Marçal mentioned about his upcoming show was that it was going to have custom pizza boxes in it, which sent my mind racing. What is the meaning of the pizza box? Why a pizza box?” —“Pizza Space-Time” by Gabriel Abrantes. Art by João Marçal. evergreenreview.com/read/pizza-s...

🥂 @evergreenreview.bsky.social 🌲

1959: It was that magical time between Thanksgiving and Christmas... --" Frankie Five Hundred"

“A star reporter during WWII, my mother-in-law Patricia (Pat) Lochridge Hartwell was the only female journalist to cover both the Pacific and European theaters—and perhaps danced with Hermann Goering.” —Up now: an excerpt from @tsvoboda.bsky.social’s new memoir. evergreenreview.com/read/witch-h...

“How much of a spectacle was the bang? Was all that white intimidated by your dark expanse?” Up now at Evergreen: “Questions You Never Thought to Ask of Blackness (For Obvious Reasons)” and three more poems by Daemond Arrindell. Art by Carl E. Hazlewood. evergreenreview.com/read/infamy-...

And the final piece in the collection—the title story, "The Witness of Nina Mvungi"—is out today in @evergreenreview.bsky.social, accompanied by beautiful artwork from Valerie Hammond. Thanks to Africa Editor Jeffery Renard Allen for all the support. "Ninaaaaaaa!" evergreenreview.com/read/the-wit...