Brandon Som
to see the world, he once said, but they sent me to Albuquerque. He learned his drink in basic training, Nana says. Li Po of government checks, of Hohokam
from the book Tripas / University of Georgia Press
Jennifer Grotz
She could find another walk, but she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to get in the car to avoid the walk, avoid the death, avoid the river.
Matt Broaddus
There are voices there, you know, saints and rams and cave dwellers, the trash of centuries I collect in a corner with a dustpan I trip over, spilling everything together.
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Where was I to look? Patients laid along both long walls.
Max Sessner (translated from the German by Francesca Bell)
in her dreams it often appeared but always as if it belonged to someone else a cold comfort we thought

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