Television Romance
“Yours is a face for the magazines / I wish I was your phone’s front camera to see every angle / Romantic surveillance” - a new love poem by Tzy Jiun Tan, inspired by Pale Waves and The 1975.
movie
Inspired by the Tom Misch song “Movie”, a love poem by Vamika Sinha.
Coming Soon to DVD
Arthur De Oliveira laments his “scratched disk of a heart” in this new poem.
Thunder
Inspired by The Japanese House song “Face Like Thunder”, Tzy Jiun Tan whirls through a love affair in this “sun-drenched” poem.
Boys Your Age
“Before they could afford a car they had already / Driven you insane” – new in milk & vodka, a poem blasting how patriarchy entraps men and hurts women.
Same, but Different—Finding Home in Paris
Tzy Jiun Tan writes about finding sanctuary in a small Chinese restaurant in Paris, while navigating dating, discrimination, homesickeness, and trauma.
Cité Universitaire
A subtle poem couched in natural metaphors, on the fragility of romantic connection.
On Interracial Relationships, The Sunken Place and Middle-Class Whiteness
“I started noticing all the times when my Dad and siblings were the only people of colour in a social group.” — Zoe Jane Patterson weaves personal experience with an analysis of Jordan Peele’s film Get Out to talk about race.
Spilling
A surreal take on loneliness and longing.
Out of the corner of my eyes, pt. 2
New fiction by Chiran Raj Pandey.
The Single Girl Haikus
A cascade of haikus reflecting on loneliness and relationships, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
sylvia, winter 1962
“She contemplated / death as coolly as the opening / of a lotus...” – a new poem on Sylvia Plath’s undoing
Out of the corner of my eyes
Sculptures, statues, surrealism — Chiran Raj Pandey’s new short story swivels from cafes to museums to Mughal emperors.
Ragdoll girl
A girl fresh from heartbreak, dreams of emotional independence, of freedom for the yearning to love and be loved.
While You Were Singing
A short story about a murder, two lovers, a Syrian drunk, and a jazz-singing policeman.
Walking
A soft, melancholic love poem while walking through a cold New York City.
George's Jungle
A sardonic play from the depths of the fashion “jungle.”