Flash
The Fantasized Life of Stella R.
by Lilia Mahfouz
May 15, 2025
As a teenager, Stella was already convinced she possessed a prodigious artistic soul. Her vocations were numerous. At thirteen, she discovered Niki de Saint Phalle and her “Nanas.” She was captivated by these oversized, powerfully expressive works... read more >
POETRY
Three Poems
by Beatriu Delaveda
March 14, 2025
JASPER JOHNS AND ME
A PANTOUM
Jasper Johns: "Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it."
Jasper Johns makes it sound so easy
I mean for him, maybe...
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Flash Fiction
How She Won Him, 1910
- With Helen Gardner
by Dorin Schumacher
March 21, 2025
I take a train to Brooklyn and knock on the door that says VITAGRAPH. The armpits of my dress are wet. A man in a bowler opens the door. “Helen Gardner, here to audition for the moving picture,” I say. I put my hand out and he doesn’t shake it... read more >
POETRY
Nightingale Mode
by Jonathan Katz
March 07, 2025
Do I wake or sleep?
– – – John Keats
I have quantified and abstracted everything
that could be measured.
I thought defining poetry would not be difficult
once prose was defined... read more >
