Let's fight the fash.

a selection from "A Limited Number of Miracles"

by Jonathan Penton

Ten Textile Artworks, August 2026

by Cindy Rinne

,

"Eventide" and "The Secret Life of Cows"

by Bruce McRae

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with Rachel Zavecz, Belle Brock Adelman-Cannon, and Ching-In Chen

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with Sheila E. Murphy

Less Likely as We Go

with Kayla Rodney

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with Joani Reese

Less Likely as We Go

with Joel Chace

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by Bill Wolak

,

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"Blackwell's Island," "Excursion into Philosophy," and "Fairgrounds in Winter"

by Ben Macnair

Shakespeare's Love

by M. F. McAuliffe

I’ve always been afraid of Shakespeare, by reputation beforehand (he’s hard); (he’s too hard for you, for us), and then doing Henry V in 2nd year. I was thirteen.

An Interview with Jonathan Penton

by Frankie Metro

When Michaela's death was fresh, I told the parents around me that it's a privilege to fear for your children. Beats the alternative, you know? And I am afraid, for my surviving children, all the time.

"Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Dorm Room," "Simple Math; Fractions," and "When Our Atoms Stop Dancing"

by Sienna Gallus

And there is a fear in me
That to write this is to ask for my murder
–a plea
for my grief to be met with a bullet–

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One day, while I was
retracing my own footprints
along the hybrid,
winding path of being and
non-being (being

"Still, the storm comes," "Do the Accent" and "The Boot"

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your hands become
coarse and thick,
hardened to feelings
from digging, picking
crops for your Lords
dining inside towers.

Affection in Abstract

by Aura Bishop

I know why Picasso painted women that way
A jumble of parts rearranged, exaggerated,
Diminished, objectified all at once
According to his measure

"Ode to Bukowski" and "Indiscreet Charade"

by Matt Morris

you leave your mark on each sheet
in the belief you’re

the only one who gives a
good shit about poetry

"cuck of the wok" and "clown car existence"

by Karl Koweski

one absurdity stacked
upon another absurdity
on top another
until all you can see
is cracked greasepaint
and garish fright wigs.

An Interview with Karl Koweski

by Frankie Metro

Do you live in a fairly liberal minded area? Do you feel you have to continually be on guard? I feel like the racism is becoming more prevalent with Trump, but in my heart of hearts I know nothing really changed at all except the comfort level when engaging in racist shit

"We Fed It Anyway," "The Sentence Finishes Itself," and "What I Did Instead"

by Dianne Casey

and I know now

how easily
a thing can live here

without belonging

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