Christine Conner has been a writer all her life: She wrote and composed songs as a teenager which […]

Liz’s fiction has been published in SHALE, East Jasmine Review, and FRE&D. Her poems have appeared in West […]

Olivia Wyatt is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. She makes ethnographic films that focus […]

Bill Ratner’s personal essays and short stories are published in The Baltimore Review, The Coachella Review, Hobo Pancakes, […]

Des Moines is just a few degrees west of perfect south from Minneapolis – two-hundred thirty-four flat miles of corn, milo, wheat, beans, cabbage, spinach, and the occasional tall hemp plant which, if you smoked it you got a headache.

The sky flickered and then came those crooked currents of heaven. Like blue serpents thrown down by winged gods– to punish, to enlighten, to bless.

Summer 2018

Vanessa Poster, a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writer’s Collective, has studied Method Writing with Jack […]

He walks the battlefield
steps over corpses
collects swords, shields, to stack
in piles.

“My father always detested ‘M.A.S.H.’ He thought it represented the normalization of war.”