Recast by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 6, 2020
Loss enters stage left in the form of violinsthrumming the past into forecast: mulberriesin the backyard, first time, a cushioned…
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Portrait as Landscape: No longer fragment or trace by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 2, 2020
I used to wear an autumn face and drapemyself in taupes, in grays. I was leaf shriveled,water-logged, the open mouth…
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Red Line by Mike Puican
December 20, 2019
Knife slicing the living night,nacreous river, we’ve stood waiting for youmany times before. And still we wait. River of departure,…
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Sunset at a Lake by Mike Puican
December 18, 2019
A woman sings to her daughter in the grass; a teenager argues          with her boyfriend  …
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Immigrant Grasses by Mike Puican
December 16, 2019
Words, overheard in garden shops, uptown and earnest, blossom into cablegrams from South Korea or Cameroon; oleander, unscented blue star,…
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Stalking the Wild by Fleda Brown
December 13, 2019
You should have seen us scooching from the carwith our walkers, me from knee surgery, himfrom the accumulations: the back,…
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Flying Through a Hole in the Storm by Fleda Brown
December 11, 2019
The plane shudders and shakes and lurches.Outside, lightning, exposed and buried by clouds.The lady next to you has a dying…
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Embroidery by Fleda Brown
December 9, 2019
You will not perhaps believe this but I embroideredpillowcases with the initial of my intended, when I was 16. You…
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Whitman by Ana Castillo
December 6, 2019
I imagine him lying on his back,gaze to the azure sky, white clouds—unlikethis grey New York on a rain-drenched day.Notebook…
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My First Cancer Poem by Ana Castillo
December 6, 2019
Feet forward.Head faces technician.Clamp comes down          presses hard. They werelovely, some said,a pair of violent lotuses…
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Homage to Akilah by Ana Castillo
December 4, 2019
(For Akilah Oliverand Oluchi, en memorium) His body was decomposing         her baby          her…
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Hypertext Interview With Steve Hughes
November 25, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice Detroiter Steve Hughes’s stories fishtail onto the page in his short story collection, Stiff (Wayne State…
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Hypertext Interview With Lisa Lenzo
November 12, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice It’s clear: Lisa Lenzo has lived Detroit. Born and raised in the Motor City, a good…
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One Question: Rashaun J. Allen
October 17, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Rashaun J. Allen, author of The Blues Cry for a Revolution, “how did you come up with the…
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One Question: Cathy Ulrich
October 16, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You, “Does it matter, for these stories, who the murderer is?”…
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Excerpt From Cathy Ulrich’s GHOSTS OF YOU
October 16, 2019
Being the Murdered Indian  The thing about being the murdered Indian is you set the plot in motion. You will…
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One Question: Connor Coyne
October 14, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Connor Coyne, author of Urbantasm, Book Two: The Empty Room, “Doesn’t your novel Urbantasm use the word ‘fuck’ a lot…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM, BOOK TWO: THE EMPTY ROOM
October 14, 2019
The Empty Room I found Adam and Selby sitting on the rusted white metal chairs on the Demnescus’ front porch.…
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The Second Sight by Suzanne Clores
October 7, 2019
PART 1 The dull whir and arcade blare of McCarran International Airport rattles my skull even after I scurry into…
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Hypertext Interview with Timothy J. Hillegonds
October 3, 2019
By Christine Rice In his memoir, The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019), Timothy Hillegonds trains his unflinching gaze on addiction, white male…
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To My Friend Who Needed A Ride by Pam Parker
October 2, 2019
When you needed me, I failed you. You had appeared in my doorway in a Lanz nightgown with splashes of…
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Hypertext Interview with Katey Schultz
October 1, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice This novel. This writing. Katey Schultz’s ambitious and fully realized novel, Still Come Home (Loyola University…
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Excerpt from Katey Schultz’s Novel Still Come Home
October 1, 2019
Blister in the Sun Chapter 2 from Still Come Home, a novel by Katey Schultz The call center on base…
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The Quiet by Kristin Ito
September 30, 2019
For my birthday, Bear and I go to the desert. We drive through Fontana and Redlands, then continue further east.…
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One Question: Sharyn Skeeter
September 27, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Sharyn Skeeter, author of Dancing with Langston, “Why did you choose to have poet and author Langston Hughes as…
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Excerpt: Sharyn Skeeter’s DANCING WITH LANGSTON
September 27, 2019
The Audition “I’d heard that a great dancer, Tyree Jones, was holding auditions in Harlem for his new fusion dance…
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Spectator Mourning by Bridget Boland
September 26, 2019
Have you ever observed the funeral wake; that is, have you been present at vigils over the bodies of the…
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We Have Lost Too Many Wigs by Desiree Cooper
September 25, 2019
As a black child born in 1960, I was only a curious spectator during the black consciousness movement. In addition…
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One Question: Stuart Ross
September 24, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Stuart Ross, author of Jenny in Corona, “How can you publish Jenny in Corona when the world is burning?” Good question.…
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Excerpt: JENNY IN CORONA by Stuart Ross
September 24, 2019
The streets exist. People engage and watch where they’re going. There is intersection, more than one way. I get around…
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