...Michelle M. Tokarczyk This article takes as its starting point the need for solidarity among working-class people and the fact that such solidarity often breaks down across racial lines. It reads Gran Torino and Frozen River as simultaneously disclosing class issues and erasing them, particularly...

...Joe Wilkins © 2014 Joe Wilkins 2014 Joe Wilkins Caddo River Elegy At least 16 people, including some children, were killed Friday after flash floods swept through their remote Arkansas...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

...Sara Burge [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Sara Burge 2024 but we're still thinking of heading down to the river eating pork rinds and playing chicken we'll barely watch out for algae scum since our mothers’ terrors were conquered by good river shoes so...

...Jeddie Sophronius Jeddie Sophronius Chinezenmoord Children carry the warm river water in wooden buckets, portion by portion until the river turns haunted. Bodies float like glass bottles, says a witness. The children scream, quiver. They run home empty-handed, their smallness shrinking them...

... undewed their buttons, sundew flashed his tracy. fleabane all fuckin sneezeweed about it. & the river rubs itself. yea, wildflower skeet skeet. yeah, baby sheep bleat bleat. sumer is a cummin in. bluffs curtain this nudie booth, caked with nature. the limestoner lips my berry-bushed rim. i maw...

... and it smelled like standing water and plastic. There was a hole in the corner that Dad had patched with duct tape. Once camp was set up, Chris and I took Delaney down the hill to the Eel River. It wasn’t all that big, especially in the summer, and we crossed a field of sun-bleached rocks to get...

...Nicomedes Suárez Araúz © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Nicomedes Suárez Araúz Reason (Answer) If from your arm at one arm’s length the city lies, and the forest is at two arms’ length from your heart, if the river runs at one look of your...

... the globe in a nonviolent encampment to block the Dakota Access Pipeline's passage across the Missouri River on tribal lands, pointing out that the proposed pipeline violated the treaties and sovereignty negotiated between the Lakota and Dakota Nations and the United States (Gilio-Whitaker 2019 ; Estes...

...David Dodd Lee © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 the minnesota review David Dodd Lee Turning Seventeen (Muskegon, 1976) The mist off the river mixed with the smoke And made the wine glow. Her fingers were soft. They jumped at the tops of my...

...Rob Cook © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Rob Cook The History of the Lost Voices He paces the kitchen waiting for the river to empty its boatload of shadows. There’s only water playing at the theaters, people silent and holding hands because of the rain which is how...

...Rodney Gomez Rodney Gomez Epithalamium I was betrothed to the river, a boy with barely a fulcrum in his mouth. But I knew how to x things. In the mudroom I became a monsoon. Or I could lower my voice to a sun ower seed and in ltrate the pipes. e night before my wedding I was ordered to stand...

... to something. “Fucking hippies,” she said. We made our way down, heading toward a smaller pool close to the river. Jennie was looking over at the man, probably noticing he was naked. His skin was weathered like he’d lived a long time outdoors. She looked at me and I shrugged...

...Chris Kelly Chris Kelly Red Shutters Shut Dirty swore you could see God. Said so to Cody while they walked along the river. Before the blue sky went violet, he swore, Cody could see the Source. Lie, Cody called, but he hoped it wasn t. Dirty clammed up, curt, wanting for pleasantry. And up...

... in a little at a time. Spread the mixture on the Amazon River of 1850 so it runs to the river’s mouth and travels beyond, all the way to Liverpool. Rubber seeds will travel from there to Malaysia, just like the Amazonian custom of drinking tea at five...

...Scott Ragland Scott Ragland After the Flood After the flood we piled our memories at the curb and moved to a town where the locals said it only rained on Mondays. For years it was true. We got jobs with free parking and pension plans. We bought a house with a view of the river and took deviled...

... Angeles Review , River Styx , and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is the poetry editor for Moon City Review . More of her work can be found at saraburge.com. Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He holds an MFA from the University...

...Crystal S. Gibbins © 2016 Crystal S. Gibbins 2016 Crystal S. Gibbins Grass Dancer: A Prayer Prairie open in me where winter comes too early, freezes grass, freezes leaves, blows away birds, blows across rivers Prairie open in me where I’ve...

...John Sibley Williams John Sibley Williams Community Service We are standing beside what used to be a river twenty or thirty years ago & fishing from it crushed cans & other unshatterable things as penance. The old highway still rumbles occasionally above us, shedding its glass & plastic skin...

...- letting. But before this, I ask you to imagine what it must have been like for us, for me, when that coward El Gallo turned away from the river —​its dark surface churning in those evil winds —​and said, speaking from the corner of his mouth, “Camilo’s shrunken bones will never rise from...