Review by José Enrique Medina — Parenting in the Age of Columbine, by Elizabeth S. Wolf, is strongest not at the level of individual poems but at the level of book design. Many poetry collections feel...

By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.

By Brigid M. Hughes — This kind of shit really isn’t allowed anymore but we’re loving it. She’s hammered and dancing in the middle of the dorm room, long brown hair, black eyeliner, one tit kinda hang...

Art Beck — An Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by Paul Vangelisti's Magra Books in 2019. Republished here with permission.

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Review by Kelsey Squire — Inspired by recent court cases in New Zealand, Ecuador, and India that affirmed personhood rights on bodies of water, Open the Floodgates imaginatively explores the implicati...

By Christine H. Chen — It all began with the empty bucket in a corner of the living room that collected the occasional water dripping from the ceiling when Ah Ma was showering on a chair in the bathtub upstairs even though I had suggested that she simply took a bath

Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original's mode of intention.

By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.

By Rachel Smith — The C spine snakes upwards; from its mouth lines of blue and red and mustard yellow. Blue for veins, red for arteries, and yellow where the spinal cord merges into brainstem.

By Rachel Smith — The C spine snakes upwards; from its mouth lines of blue and red and mustard yellow. Blue for veins, red for arteries, and yellow where the spinal cord merges into brainstem.

Review by Kelsey Squire — In Matthew Jakubowski’s chapbook Ghost in the Rain, the story titled “Particles of Death” opens with a question: “What is it that keeps us alive?”

Review by Kelsey Squire — In Matthew Jakubowski’s chapbook Ghost in the Rain, the story titled “Particles of Death” opens with a question: “What is it that keeps us alive?”

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In these 12 microfictions and flash stories, Matthew Jakubowski traces a terrain of otherworldly-ness populated by lost ghosts, haunted lovers, immo...

“Rather than a work of ‘historical fiction,’ per se, Smoke is a literary work that indagates and interpellates the concepts of history, historicity, and historiography, while asserting the collective ...

By Gary Fincke — My thirteen-year-old daughter Olivia and I drove out the strip tonight for dinner like we do every week on Wednesday when I have her.

By Pam Avoledo — A glass slipper is found in a closet, you: a) Start to sing with the birds.The bluejay tells you it has traveled from a park in Canada. Have you been to Canada, it asks, and you say o...

By Pam Avoledo — A glass slipper is found in a closet, you: a) Start to sing with the birds.The bluejay tells you it has traveled from a park in Canada. Have you been to Canada, it asks, and you say o...

Featuring Itto and Mekiya Outini, Grant Maierhofer, Garima Chhikara, Claire Salvato, Garth Robinson, James Nulick, Jade Kleiner, Manshuk Kali (translated by Slava Faybysh), Ricardo Bernhard, Rowan Mac...

By Sarp Sozdinler — Mama got cancer. Bummer. I’m eleven, going on twelve. Making shit of my time. Time is still a friend to me but an enemy to my mother.

By Elizabeth Ohga — The pair of jeans that’s never fit, too wasteful to toss it even though you know you’ll never wear it, like all those friends you exchange thumbs and hearts with on social...