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Earlier this year, Poetry Editor Connor Beeman sat down with Travis Chi Wing Lau to discussed his debut full-length collection, What’s Left Is Tender, a stunning collection of poems about disability, family, queerness and what it means to be kind to ourselves, our histories, and our bodies.
CB: The...
Art
Paintings by Anna Smetanenko
Fiction
Yeast-led Market Growth
Kelsey Stewart
Time Travelers
Eileen Tomarchio
New Moon and Sky Roads
Cassondra Windwalker
Orchestra Head
Henry Sodergren
Nonfiction
The Monitor
What’s in a Farm?
Lisa Allen
...Lisa Allen is Boston-based writer and freelance journalist. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Meridian, Arrowsmith Press, Ghost City Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost Parachute, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a book. Find more of her writing here:
but it was a plastic bag. The song it sang was not rare,
but beautiful, as it swooped towards me,
its skin aged, its parents in Ohio, I was relieved
at the way it levitated in the face of wind, the way
someone called it ugly, called it nothing, how it sighed
and offered itself to their window—and how might
it change if the bag had the word ...