Tell it muffled, tell it crooked, whisper it into a thousand layers of hospital green cotton, bubble it up through a vat of Adriamycin. Or not. Maybe best not to tell it at all.
Here You Go
Just so you’ll know: this doesn’t end with me doing the right thing. Why else would it stick with me for forty years? Who has the time, space, or inclination to remember one’s moral successes? Don’t, however, go into this…
SKY SPA
Our ancestors scrolled hand-held cell phones with their own fingers. They walked down dirty streets with scrawny legs, braving monstrous weather. They worked themselves sick to pay for things with invented currency.
Tour Guide
I drive to the point where it feels illegal, like we are breaking some rule or another by being so far from the actual prison.
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
I first opened Diane Seuss’s new collection, frank: sonnets, in Maria Hernandez Park in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on one of the first sunny days of Spring. To call Maria Hernandez a ‘park’ is to do it an immense…
Joy
The perfume is called Joy, but the black box looked sinister to me as a kid, funereal; it looked like it should hold ashes, cigarettes, a lifeless heart.
The Poet as a Revolutionary Force – A Review of Cedar Sigo’s Guard the Mysteries
A Review of Cedar Sigo’s Guard the Mysteries by Columbia Journal’s Alex Kapsidelis
Review: Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
From the cigar factories of 19th century Cuba to sleazy Miami nightclubs and a family detention center in Texas, Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, Of Women and Salt, follows the lives of women fighting to survive in countries and relationships hellbent…
Dear John Ashbery
Everything is behind a chain linked fence and I think I might have tennis elbow. I’ve trained for this my whole life and now here we are with no words in the night sky.
Audit
We wore white hats and tights, colorful buttons / preventing the wind from undoing our clothes.
Getting In The Game: An Interview With Jordan E. Franklin
Jordan E. Franklin is a Brooklyn based poet with two projects coming out in 2021 – When the Signals Come Home, a full-length collection from Switchback Books which won the Gatewood Prize, and a chapbook entitled boys in the electric…
Lifting the Bird’s Feather: A Love Letter to Interpreting
Columbia Journal’s Assistant Translation Editor Tiffany Troy in conversation with Judith Small on the magic of language learning, the musicality of traversing languages and the ethics of interpretation and advocacy and the deeply human.