Editorial

Letter from the Fiction Editor

Fiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Fiction Editor: Art and the Universality of Pain by AM Larks “Pain doesn’t have a face and pain doesn’t have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.” —Aunjanue Ellis While everyone else was still sleeping off the revelry that accompanied the last days of 2008, I was at the Getty with my future husband. I walked through the exhibits more quickly than Mark, who ...

Editorial Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Editorial Letter from the Editor | Tracy Granzyk Letter from the Nonfiction Editor | Grace Jasmine Letter from the Fiction Editor | A. M. Larks Letter from the Poetry Editor | Steve Granzyk

Letter from the Editor

Editorial Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Editor: Caring for One Another by Tracy Granzyk ’m encouraged to report that in only our second issue, our submissions have tripled. I can’t help but wonder if this issue’s theme of Pain is what drew so many people in. We chose this theme believing we would receive work that relieved suffering through art, work that assured readers they were not alone in their ...

Letter from the Nonfiction Editor

Nonfiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Writing Through the Pain by Grace Jasmine ain is a heavy subject. It is fraught with emotion, with drama, with real-life tragedy and hardship. It is an especially difficult subject to edit—but even more so, it is a terribly difficult subject about which to write. However, in this section, you will meet eight women of fortitude and courage, a tribe of unrelated but ...

Letter from the Poetry Editor

Poetry Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Poetry Editor: Pain, Poetic Gifts, and the Reader’s Role by Steve Granzyk n the autumn of 2007, I was up late reading The Best American Essays 2006. By habit, I had been flipping through the volume’s pages, skimming opening paragraphs and bits of dialogue—you know, looking for something enticing. That’s how I encountered Marjorie Williams’ “A Matter of Life and Death.” After an unsettling ...

Editorial

Editorial Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Editorial Letter from the Editor | Tracy Granzyk Letter from the Nonfiction Editor | Grace Jasmine Letter from the Fiction Editor | A. M. Larks Letter from the Poetry Editor | Steve Granzyk Special Thanks | Tracy Granzyk