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A Review of Jaia Hamid Bashir’s The Afterlife of Sweetness

Laura Gilpin’s “The Two-headed Calf” has perhaps gone more viral than any other poem on the internet. If younger, tumblr-era millennials were the original superspreaders, posting a now Reddit-famous webcomic of the…

On Shame and Rejection

When Nate Marshall called to tell me I’d won the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, I lost it. Jumped for joy. Wept. Could not—in any way—keep it together. What I’d longed…

A Conversation with Toni Ann Johnson

Toni Ann Johnson won the Flannery O’Connor Award for her linked story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, which was selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gay. Homegoing, Johnson’s first work…