Jason Myers
Ars Poetica in Which the Poet is Not a Cockroach

Jason Myers - Ars Poetica in Which the Poet is Not a Cockroach

Poetry
Jason Myers is the Editor-in-Chief of The EcoTheo Review. His writing has appeared in American Poet (introduced by Campbell McGrath), The Believer, Ecotone, Image, The Paris Review, West Branch, and… Read more »
Brock Jones
Cardiology

Brock Jones - Cardiology

Poetry
Brock Jones is an assistant professor of English at Utah Valley University and the author of Cenotaph (University of Arkansas Press, 2016), a finalist in the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. His… Read more »
Amorak Huey
In the Final Months of My Parents’ Marriage

Amorak Huey - In the Final Months of My Parents’ Marriage

Poetry
Amorak Huey is the author of three books of poetry: Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018, winner of the Vern Rutsala Prize), and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015), as… Read more »
Sandy Longhorn
Not Another Dead Woman as Plot Device

Sandy Longhorn - Not Another Dead Woman as Plot Device

Poetry
Sandy Longhorn has received the Porter Fund Literary Prize for Arkansas authors and the Collins Prize from the Birmingham Poetry Review. She is the author of three books of poetry: The Alchemy of My… Read more »
Melissa Crowe
The Parting

Melissa Crowe - The Parting

Poetry
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and… Read more »

In the Final Months of My Parents’ Marriage

Amorak Huey

We are building a flying machine, my father, my brother, & me. We work in the attic of an abandoned house— to reach this room, we lean the rusting skeleton of a box spring against the wall & scramble up through a trap door. Wood glue, balsa, complicated mimeograph blueprint—it’s a kit from the Farm & Feed, a gift, a getaway vehicle; although none of us knows it yet, we are each in our own separate hurries away from this place. The work is delicate, requires a kind of care I’ve never had. They are both better than I am at this, if it were left up to me, I would crack these thin slices of wood, render them useless. Down the hill, a chert driveway, crushed stone & packed sand. Across the road, a field. Beyond that, behind a row of scrub pine & water oak, a river. But today it’s the field we need. An open space to test our work. A rubber band. A winding tight. A letting go & a grassy place to land.
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