Shorts reader Andy Hofmann on today’s short: You roost on your local park's benches and feed the flocks of resident birds. You bask in the sunshine, scatter seeds or bread, and enjoy the peace. But w...

"I’m changed by every light gone out, just as the sky is changed."

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Associate fiction editor Zoa Coudret on today’s bonus story: The aftermath of a marriage is difficult to capture succinctly, but Kim Magowan illuminates a range of emotions and makes the characters p...

Associate fiction editor Zoa Coudret on today’s bonus story: The aftermath of a marriage is difficult to capture succinctly, but Kim Magowan illuminates a range of emotions and makes the characters p...

"I’m changed by every light gone out, just as the sky is changed."

Poetry reader Frankie Spring on today’s poem: The wheel spider lives in the desert. It is named for its ability to use its legs like spokes and roll as fast as 44 turns per second down sand-dune hill...

Short-shorts editor Adam Nesbit on today’s short: Winter has a warmth around its edges. But maybe not. Maybe winter is cold around its edges and warm in its middle. Is it more like sipping a hot drin...

Poetry editor Nicolette Ashley Visciano on today’s poem: What are you left with when tender ballad and commanding poeticism are melded? Within this coalescence, James D'Agostino presents the reader w...

Poetry editor Ellen K. Fee on today’s poems: Elena Zhang’s poems are tight blocks of prose with a surprising porousness—how else could the star have gotten in there? Through spaces like the “crack in...

Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display. Nothing can separate us from its biblically accurate angel...

Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why. In “Self-Portrait as Love Island...

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Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “ On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel” is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the gen...

Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...

Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel , forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press ...