• Faint

    Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Winter 2024

    Vagueness tends to criminalize
    and of few available alternatives
    my favorite is the dream of the same

    room. Pick your noise, in wells
    or against walls. In the light

    of the microwave clock, under advice
    of long symbols, showily I become

    my own guest (in mother words,
    a duty). Oxygen a calm oddity
    everywhere but its status more

    bounced in bias. To be my chorus,
    I first had to be a teenager who hoped

    Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press 2024) and teaches poetry at Kenyon College.

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    The Curses: Part I

    John Jeremiah Sullivan

    In discussing twentieth century American popular music and its most essential genre, the blues, there have been two main channels for getting into the history, or, as we like to say, the roots, of that tradition. The first and more familiar involves the so-called “pre-war blues”—confusingly called so, if you stop to think, since the music referred to by that name was recorded between 1921 and about 1937; the term ought to be, “between-wars,” or entre deux guerres. Regardless, people who love old music know what you mean when you say it. A dim blue light comes on over crackly shellac. “Pre-war”: that’s the twenties and thirties, the Okeh and Paramount labels, southern blues queens and obscure rural guitar geniuses. The real business. The plutonium.

    Weather

    Jennifer Habel

    Rainy in the forenoon but pleasant in the afternoon.
    Pleasant in the afternoon but cloudy in the morning.
    Pleasant, a beautiful day for our picnic

    Stanzas: Charles Simic

    Austen Leah Rose

    Here, like in many of his poems, the surreal, end-stopped images rise out of the dark without the scaffolding of logic.

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