WIT TEA

Book Review, Piece of Toast: A Life of Charred Bread

By DAVID CAPPS

A Life of Charred Bread ultimately fails to deliver, both in terms of pace and stodgy language.

TRANSLATION

Kika

By EVGENIA NEKRASOVA

Translated from Russian by Marianna Suleymanova

Q&A

Q&A with Anna B. Moore, author of Don’t Pity the Desperate

By MARIE LOOK

[Myra] does not choose this purpose to start out with—it’s a path made by the omnipresent superficiality of popular culture, Twelve-Step language and rituals, and the lack of adult mentorship in her life.

INSIGHT

Exquisite Corpus

By GEETHA IYER

When I teach them about ChatGPT, I want them to eviscerate it.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

19 Mar 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of a bush of small purple flowers, with a hummingbird pressing its beak into it. The hummingbird has a red head and a green body. Its wings are blurred in mid-flight. The background is unfocused, but the purple of more of the flowers and green of surrounding foliage can be seen.

Night-Blooms, Persephone

By MARY HELEN CALLIER

I dive into the water, / and the water bends behind me.

17 Mar 2025

MICRO

Photo of the outside of a brown concrete bar with bright string lights dangling from an overhead pavilion/tent above a dark, outside sitting area at night. In the distance, a white car is pulling away. The blue string lights cast a glow on the pavement; near the ground are bright yellow marquee letter signs that spell "bar."

Miles like Friends

By FINN DEERHART

...there really is no rescue from loneliness.

13 Mar 2025

ESSAY

An underwater photo of pink coral in a turquoise sea.

Ngoại and the Coral Reef

By KYLA-YếN HUỳNH GIFFIN

I think of time. Like Ngoại, this reef only has so much of it left.

12 Mar 2025

WIT TEA

a fire ablaze in front of a black background

Multigenerational Family Saga

By ADAM FAGIN

Max was holding a thin mint.

11 Mar 2025

BACK OF THE ENVELOPE

A round, microscopic slide of one translucent krill and several translucent copepods

Bags

By DIEGO ALFARO PALMA

Bags eat away at the steadfast beliefs held by human beings regarding usefulness. Through this very effective tactic, they determine their multiplication and survival.

5 Mar 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of long, bristled, and tall purple-pink flowers clustered together, with bright sunlight illuminating them. The background is blurred but emerald green grass and coniferous trees can be seen. In the rop right corner, the bright blue sky is visible.

Drama

By STEPHANIE CAWLEY

This could be my play where I am watering my sibling’s tomato plants in the morning and the play is / me thinking about you watching me water the tomato plants, which you aren’t doing.

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