In the back alley of my mind a taxi leaked orange light against the worst of my wounding and I said, I want to leave that here.

The Elegy Letters (A Selection)

My work as a writer is aimed at truth which, like a song, cannot be contained.

Songs for the Elegy Issue (A Selection)

A series of songs chosen by Issue X’s contributors, a mix to light up all that desperate quiet & sing the grief alive.

The Synaesthesia Letters (A Selection)

When a poem reaches its most potent limits, I consider it reaching into the state of song.

A selection of songs that have marked this era of fluid warmth, the soundtrack to which we’ve been dreaming a bright new thing into breath.

Ode to the Gothic Heroine (A Selection)

Our heroine keeps walking, and we follow, unseen ally, shadow of hope, anticipating the thrills and horrors lying in wait.

Though perhaps not as loud as what we know today, queerness has always been alive in music, hopeful and radiant and revolutionary and gentle.

To Return (A Car Ride, A Selection)

How exactly do we hold our distance while also holding the truth of others’ shared humanity? How do we reach out and still remain safe?

The Sforzando Letters (a selection)

I write, as Roethke says, "to solve all the leaps of light." I write to do with letters what Thelonious Monk did with piano keys.

Songs for the Sforzando Issue (a selection)

The songs our team has been spinning as we work to curate your—& our own—burning & cracking & aching into something beautiful for you.