TheNervousBreakdown

“SOMEONE

i thought i heard someone say samoan” Read new poems by Craig Dworkin on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“piano and right-handed trumpet
in the atrium
we find a seat and text
hey now hey now
complete metabolic response” Read new poems by Michele Leggott on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“I look up at the stars. I know we're supposed to think there are constellations up there. But there's a reason why the Dipper is the only one anybody can ever see. It's because nothing up there actually looks like anything.” New fiction by Ken Chowder: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“My talents include wealth transfer
and, specifically, writing poems
about wealth transfer” Read four new poems by Gene Morgan on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“Walking around with a torch
Seems like a nice idea.
I could have been watching television.
Instead I was investigating an old, ruined monastery” Read new poems by Patty Nash on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“Thom was embracing & being embraced by another man when suddenly out of the steam Michel Foucault padded up to them on all fours, barking madly like a dog, and began licking Thom’s feet.” Read new poems by James Cummins on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“Whenever a big piece went viral, it was hard not to wonder if the criticisms of it that resulted were not based a bit in jealousy. Why did you get something I want?” Read new fiction by Grace Byron on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“You can’t tell when strange things with meanings will happen
Avoiding a root, adjusting easily to some rough place” Read new poems by Julia Vose on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

‘Years before, I’d first read Robinson Jeffers. One poem had the line,
“I’d sooner kill a man than a hawk.” I tore the book in half and threw it at a wall.’ Read new poems by Keith Shein on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband. Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.” Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“‘When did you find out you were blessed, Herbie,” Chloe asked. “Wednesday,” Herbie said. “No, wait,” he said, “it was Tuesday. Late on Tuesday. In the middle of the night.’” Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“This is your mother. I hoped you’d be home but that’s fine; I know you’re busy.” Read three new poems by Ron Koertge on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“I remember Bill one time told me he’d put a rifle in his mouth just to see how it felt. He told me this on my birthday. I asked how it felt. He said, Ha. Bad.” Read new fiction by Leonard Meldbath on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“This is not a video game. It’s not a movie. It’s not Scotland Yard. It’s fucking real life.” Read five new poems by Marie Buck on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“I’ve grown
accustomed to the way
she says that’s enough or try
harder or not tonight I have
a headache” Read four new poems by Pat Nolan on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“What the readings are, what Father Hank mumbles for a homily—that I can’t say, because it’s not long after the priest gets to the pulpit that this psycho wanders inside the church.” Read new fiction by Alexander Sammartino on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“Somewhere on this planet of shiny phones and dressed salads, maps of oceans and brass doorknobs, a giraffe is greedily separating seeds from a pod with its violet tongue.” Read two stories by Santiago Craig, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude: relegationbooks.com/article/…

“We strongly request that you do not send us any more of your work, and that you abstain from sending it to any other literary magazine so as to not waste any time on either parties.” Read new writing by Ellie Goins on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…

Read new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: relegationbooks.com/article/…