“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.

“When flowers arrived, they upended and transformed the planet." 💐

Sara Teasdale was a bestseller in her day and a major influence on Sylvia Plath. Today she’s rarely read. This National Poetry Month, we’ve digitized the eighteen poems she published in TYR, with an essay by Maggie Millner.

NEWS: The former Odeon Cinema in Morecambe (1937), now a hardware and bathroom supply shop, has been Grade II listed following support from C20 Society. The Streamlined Moderne style cinema was one of 7 designed for Odeon by architect William Calder Robson; 3 of which survive, all are now listed.

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A group of Lebanese Americans have announced that they will sue the US administration over the destruction of their homes from Israel’s war in southern Lebanon:

So you understand why Trump wanted Ellison to control #TikTok and Dina McCormick to head #META. You can read and share this without a subscription. The A.I.-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube to hook conservative voters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

“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 —“The Rose Is Obsolete,” an essay on artist Alice Tippit by @simpsome.bsky.social.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...

“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...

"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

“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...

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...

For what it's worth, watching how they handled the war Iran, I am a lot less confident in their ability to rig the midterms.

My latest very short story is up on @evergreenreview 💙 I guess I processed everything through writing long before I considered myself to be a writer. 📖 Link below and in bio. evergreenreview.com/read/valenti...

“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-...

The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different. Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don't want it to breathe or fuck for me; I want it to solve cancer. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” - Gore Verbinski The dude knows what's up.

The thing that really sucks here is that it doesn't just waste our time (especially if we see a pitch that looks intriguing and it turns out to be trash). It makes organizations stop doing open calls, which cuts actual writers, especially early career ones, out of opportunities.

Every organization I work with, including The Flytrap, has noticed this every time we put out an open call for pitches and it gets picked up in an opportunities newsletter, just a deluge of AI slop we have to wade through.

“* 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...

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Imagine seeing this and thinking, after Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that what ICE needs is more funding for surveillance equipment like body cams. ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.

Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through. 9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.

oh my god

The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well.