Tag: Taylor Byas
Announcing Our 2023 Contest Winners
The three winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, plus words from the judges and winners, and a list of honorable mentions
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miCRo: “Leftist Love Song” by Jay Julio
Jay Julio’s “Leftist Love Song” pokes and prods at all the ways our current political climate has disappointed us, and peels back the mask of the “American dream” to reveal the devastation that lies beneath it.
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What We’re Reading: Crooked Smiling Light
Violence, King argues, is something Black men must inherit to survive even their own blood.
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miCRo: “Ends Meet” by Leslie Parry
You make a run for it when the sky goes dark, waiting out the storm in the rental car, where at least you don’t have to whisper.
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What We’re Reading: Each One a Furnace
Oloruntoba manages to capture the uneasiness of living through the last few years’ quasi-apocalypse.
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What We’re Reading: Concentrate
In her debut poetry collection, Courtney Faye Taylor underscores the importance of more honest witnessing, of a history that includes all the moving parts, including ourselves.
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miCRo: “Hit the Tree” by Denise Bergman
Bergman’s writing is breathless, a strategic babbling attempt to catalog all of the details of a car accident.
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miCRo: “Inventory of Your Things as I Empty Your House” by Anita Wright Collins
This piece moves seamlessly between fact and feeling, illustrating how objects are often the most powerful doorways into memories.
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Excavating My Voice After PhD Exams
I spent minutes just staring at the cursor blink at me: an infinite tally for the time I was wasting, a constant little wound scarring the page I couldn’t dare to fill.
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The Whys and Whens of Having a Writer’s Website
Writers share their thoughts on creating and managing their personal websites.
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The Writer as Editor: How Editing and Technology Shapes The Submission Process
Submitting our work can often feel daunting, risky, even scary. Although I’m sure there is one, I can’t currently think of another profession where one willingly places themselves in a position to be rejected as much as writers do.
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Microreview and Interview: Matt Mitchell’s The Neon Hollywood Cowboy
Assistant Editor Taylor Byas interviews Matt Mitchell about his debut collection, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, in which Mitchell “spins us a record, songs of longing and love crooning from grainy speakers.”
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