by Madison Whatley Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything, was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022 and was named one of […]
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by Kathryn Petruccelli Self Portrait with Invented House of Worship Imagine a house. There should definitely be walls,boundaries, how else to hold this story? A house.Longing for home. Nesting. Maybe rent to own.Discount for long-term lease. All that. A houseof worship. Except I get to choose what goes inthe windows. Forget the guy with the […]
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R: All You Need
by Kathryn Petruccelli R: All You Need The letter R, trilled in Latin, was referenced as littera canina (“the dog’s letter”) because its sound was believed to resemble a dog’s growl. Nurse: Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?Romeo: Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.Nurse: Ah, mocker! that’s the […]
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N: Cheating Evolution
by Kathryn Petruccelli N: Cheating Evolution Like many letters of the Roman alphabet, N has evolved over 4,000 years such that one might not recognize some of its earlier shapes. It derives from the Phoenicians’ letter nun, meaning fish. …Humans may also extend their bodies into non-anthropomorphic structures such as wings…During the twilight years of […]
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Health Conditions
by Porsha Monique Allen Health Conditions after Nicole Sealey’s “Medical History” Negative said the pregnancy test for the third timewith the third man. None of whom I lovedor loved me. My great-grandmother died ofnatural causes. My Aunt died of breast cancer,my uncle of prostate. My maternal grandmotherwent blind from diabetes then died from it.I have […]
by Ellie Gomero and Cathy Almeciga Sandra Cisneros is an award-winning Mexican American poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Best known for her debut novel House on Mango Street, her work has garnered numerous awards, including NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, and national and international book awards. […]
by Trey Rhone Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their conversation with Gulf Stream poetry reader Trey Rhone at the 2022 Miami Book Fair is below: TR: So, Kemi, could you give me […]
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Self-Portrait as a Witness
by Javeria Hasnain Self-Portrait as a Witness Is that how you have seen me all your life—unmirrored as I am. I wish I too had looked at myself longer as a child. Once, N fascinatedthe whole class by turning her fingers into a claw. I’m a vulture, she said, as if it was something to […]
by Javeria Hasnain Those that announce their departure as a probable return My family is full of these kinds of people. Baba,going for his evening walks, says, I’m coming back. We all linger at the doorway a little longerthan is customary—unyielding, convinced that, somehow, we will snatch our dead back from God.The next day after […]
by Jordan Hill Cindy McCreery is a screenwriter and producer who has sold feature projects to New Line Cinema, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, National Geographic Films, Warner Brothers, MGM, Branded Entertainment, Lionsgate, and Sony. Gulf Stream staff member Jordan Hill’s interview with her is below. Jordan Hill: At the University of Texas, you […]
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