măng cụt | mangosteen
have you ever eaten a mangosteen?
deep purple jewels
with thick rinds
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They say ash
They say ash is the new snow
in the hottest places
As the Last Angel Blows His Rusted Horn
What they might remember flickers like a moth’s wing in a headlight
Two Kings
One day, walking past his old apartment complex on campus, I stopped & watched
Interview// “To Bear Witness to One’s Own Life”: A Conversation Between Hyejung Kook & Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s latest book Mothersalt (Alice James Books, 2025) explores the tenderness and strangeness of childbirth, pregnancy, and early motherhood as well as what it means to be “that …
Interview// “On Forsaking / Invoking / Grieving”: A Conversation with Kelly Hoffer
“Naming grief might risk forsaking it, but naming can also be an invocation. I write about my mother and so here she is, brightening the pain I thought I put to bed.”—Kelly Rose Hoffer
Patterns and Tremble: On Richard Meier’s A Duration and A Companion
“The predicament becomes living in “this present tense that refuses no one” while acknowledging that writing from life, however fast, is writing the past.”
2026 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2026 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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