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She is the pinnacle of wrenching the last crumbed teardrop out of the cereal box upon waking. I want more silky light that is mothering light that drips over my body as I rise out of the bed and make all of this work. Make half a life matter to the rest of the decades …

Lisa is the cousin I do the Ouija board with. We put our small hands on the planchette, waiting for guidance. We are too young to light candles, but we dim the lights and that will have to do. We feel the push and pull of each other. We swear we feel a presence. “Are …

The first summer of the pandemic, my parents sold the house in the Poconos. The place was beloved – I loved it for the natural world that surrounded it, for the century old trails and primeval trees and glacial creeks and bogs, while my mom loved the nearby outlets, low sales tax, and cheap gas …

The Criminal Justice System threw us in a cell on Rikers Island to rot and die. We were two teenagers from Brooklyn, born into bondage and a bunch of bad luck. Our teenage years tapered off into being animalized by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. No one had taught us …

So many things about you I didn’t know. I suppose that is what happens when a grandmother dies. After all, I was only 18 when you left that day in May. All my teenage years you asked me if I had a boyfriend––no, sort of, not yet––now I understand perhaps behind the question was the …

Arctic Play by Mita Mahato (The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024, pre-order here) Mita Mahato is the author and artist of Arctic Play, forthcoming from The 3rd Thing. Her poetry comix have appeared in places including Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades. …

Arctic Play by Mita Mahato (The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024, pre-order here)Read an excerpt here on BR! Michelle Peñaloza: What inspired you to create Arctic Play, and how did your experience as a part of the Arctic Circle artist residency in the Norwegian Arctic of Svalbard influence the direction of the project? Did you …

The girl who sat down for a minute was used to being in a million places all at once, was used to being a million different people she had to be. She once served as the executive director of the turmoil clean up team back home, but that was years ago. I heard one day …

Former Bellingham Review contributor Andrea Hollander’s newest collection of poetry, And Now, Nowhere But Here (Terrapin Books, 2023), is a stunning display of wisdom, intimacy, and heart. The author invites us to sit with moments of grief and distinctive experiences of longing, allowing the reader the opportunity to feel everything at full capacity. With poems …

Until now, loss & body is howto articulate grief. The law of articulation states that the story is used to find the unknown. What is the story?A boy is chiseled wrong in the face and his name is what happens when a preacher jumps from faith to faith. His lineage, a long history of people …