Edward Salem is a poet who hasn’t lost his sense of humor. “Palestinians,” he shares in our interview, “are insanely funny.” It’s this sense of humor that jumps off the page of Salem’s debut poetry…| FOUR WAY REVIEW
Aubade My ghosts line up, mouths full of bitter greens and sweet grasses, names chalked on the walls …| FOUR WAY REVIEW
Addiction, death, and loss are everywhere in Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille (released by Flood Editions in August), but they are not its actual subject. Instead, the poems wrestle—as near as it can be stated—with the world the speaker inhabits. Whether she turns her attention to a moth, the comparison between a pumpkin and a| FOUR WAY REVIEW
Julia Thacker’s debut collection To Wildness was recently awarded the Anthony Hecht prize by Paul Muldoon. The book makes its way through the wilds of New England, grieving the family born an…| FOUR WAY REVIEW
POETRY FLEVATO by Richard Siken PARIS by Elly Bookman THE BABIES by Dara Yen Elerath YESTERDAY AUSTIN TOLD ME TWO SWANS by Arro Mandell PASSTHROUGH by Haley Lee GOLD by Kunjana Parashar BLUE PERIOD by James O’Leary THE YEAR YOU DIED by Vasvi Kejriwal TWO POEMS by Alexa Luborsky TWO POEMS by Caroline Richards TWO POEMS by Corinna Rosendahl FICTION RUN| FOUR WAY REVIEW
I am watching the babies. The gray one in sticky pants who keeps picking his nose. The pale one with headlice, scabies and fleas. I am watching the babies. This one choking on a plastic bottle. This one talking to itself in the dark. I am hauling the babies to the park, to the library,| FOUR WAY REVIEW
drowned a local man for coming too close and Thomas and I laughed but I still think if I don’t count my teeth they’ll be taken, can’t be careful enough out here. Last night I stepped onto a stage heaped with dead fish. I was looking for the right earrings| FOUR WAY REVIEW
After the play we talk while we wait for the C with our shoes touching on the platform. Say, when the magician unrolled the sea, an old tunnel in us burst open. Lights off, all air – with you I believe in water wrung from paper. They didn’t need to use names to make us| FOUR WAY REVIEW
Lately, I’ve been yearning for things: car keys, houseplants, dhurries, cubes of ice, petals, but really for something skin-deep. I keep addressing myself as we; like I am the bull & I am the matador. I am the prayer and the devotee. We are prying open our mouths to sing. We are the ear and| FOUR WAY REVIEW
It’s 9:31 PM where the end of the city tinges the sea. An empty spiderweb hangs motionless between the blinds & the closed window leaking the street’s neon onto the unmade bed. No moon. Not even the comfort of wine, bottles shaped like the body I want, & will never have.| FOUR WAY REVIEW
05/19: A tornado flung a fridge into the bones of a tree. Its bark, gnarled, like the mouth of someone, new to grief. 05/22: I found your pen at the edge of the dresser. Yet to collect dust, it held your fading fingermarks. 06/18: Then, hunger| FOUR WAY REVIEW
